Painful Quotes - Page 23

• If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If you are called and do answer the call, it is the adventure of your life.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Adventure, Answers, Difficult

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

  Mark Coleman

  Causes, Enough, States

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you want to be a proud person, then you want to avenge your loss. For me it was [Josean] Serra and [Joe] Hughes, and for Michael Bisping, Henderson is one of his losses - one of his most painful losses. So I understand why he wants to avenge it. As an athlete I understand.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Athlete, Loss, Proud Person

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• Because Conor McGregor is so confident - he goes there 'I'll beat this, I will do that' - If I would be his coach I will tell him all the time, behind closed doors, how dangerous [Nate] Diaz is and how much of a war this fight will be and how painful, and long, and uncomfortable it would be, and to get prepared for the worst day of his life.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Fighting, Doors

  "Interview: A sit-down with Georges St-Pierre in Israel". Interview with Ram Gilboa, www.bloodyelbow.com. August 10, 2016.

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• Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so many times that it was just painful for him. He constantly had to go to Rome to explain his views.

  John Shelby Spong

  Views, Rome, Fine

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.

  Christy Turlington

  Fashion, Shows, Fashion Show

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those alongside the actual historical bits was like looking into a sort of a painful mirror, because "my" parts were so show-offy at first. They stood out because they were so flamboyant.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Mirrors, Historical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.

  Donald Trump

  Hate, Roots, Evil

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

  David Remnick

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We could curtail private spending by several trillion dollars a year without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That would be more than enough to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and eliminate government indebtedness once and for all.

  Robert H. Frank

  Sacrifice, Government, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Mean, Painful Death, Choices

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• My music is very raw, it's emotional, and it's honest. I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.

  Adrian Marcel

  Falling In Love, Writing, Emotional

  Source: thesource.com

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• Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, "Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was."

  Maya Angelou

  Pain, Waiting, Stronger

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

  Donald Trump

  Love Is, Lied, Our Family

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Being Human, Humans

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I know, personally, that I would not be in the beautiful state of awareness that I find myself in daily now - knowing that love is the essence of all that is - had I not had the most painful of all experiences, the loss of my stepdaughter.

  Suzanne Giesemann

  Beautiful, Loss, Love Is

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

  Felicity Jones

  Cheating, Thinking, Infidelity

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Looks, Way, Overachiever

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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• Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

  Colin Powell

  Reality, Leader, Looks

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Lgbt, Pay, Nervous

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

  Iris Apfel

  People, Effort, Want

  "Icon fashion legend Iris Apfel 96 years old and going strong". Queerguru Interview, queerguru.com. 2015.

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• We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.

  Jon Gordon

  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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• It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

  Mark Helprin

  Debt, Kind, Persons

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war in Iraq. That really was very difficult and very painful. Every fibre in my body felt it was wrong. I spoke to leaders, we spoke to people, we tried... we couldn't stop it... and we see the results.

  Kofi Annan

  Regret, War, Iraq

  "Kofi Annan Calls Obama’s Libya Policy 'Not Very Helpful'" by Richard Grenell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2011.

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