Painful Quotes - Page 28

• A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

  Louis C. K.

  Children, Parent, Feelings

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• Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Mistake, Past, Choices

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• When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

  Mitch Daniels

  Pain, Real, Government

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.

  Junot Diaz

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Pain, Live Life

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2488, Delphi Classics

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• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  George Eliot

  Pain, People, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

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• However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, White

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.12, Pluto Press

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• A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

  Will Ferrell

  People, Childhood, Brain

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• Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

  Thomas Fuller

  Money, Pain, Business

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• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Life, Motivational, Jobs

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• Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same.

  Mel Gibson

  Disappointment, Sacrifice, Joy

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• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

  William Glasser

  Past, Needs, Littles

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• I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Fun, Struggle, Journey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

  Amy Grant

  Pain, Compassion, People

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• I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Impressive, Mediocre

  "Exclusive: Neil Patrick Harris on judging 'Idol' and bringing 'So You Think You Can Dance' to the Emmys". Interview with Whitney Pastorek, www.ew.com. August 28, 2009.

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• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  Salma Hayek

  Mistake, Cutting, Giving

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• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Important

  "Damien Hirst: 'Art is childish and childlike'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2010.

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• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agony, Fire, Giving

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  LaToya Jackson

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.345

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• I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Forgiveness, Heart, Long

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• Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Life, Lessons, Sometimes

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.

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• It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

  Rodney King

  American History, Position, Comfortable

  "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.

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