Top 1200 Painful Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?

I'm upset that 'Dastaan' is ending. After working so hard, to see it end abruptly is painful.

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.

As much of a privilege as it is to pass, it's painful. You have to compartmentalize your life. That's awkward. Dating can be horrible.

I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

I believe that music can encourage you to move on from painful events. It helps to make a scar fade.

There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a little voice in my head worried that I didn't have the know-how or the experience to reach for an exciting opportunity.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.

There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

I fell asleep at my desk many times. This was when working on events—virtually every one I’ve done in the last 5 years. I was not confronting the writing of speeches. In fact, I was not wanting to confront what I was doing at the time—being irresponsible... I am now known for falling asleep. This has happened 50 times in the last 5 years and probably 20 times at my desk in the last 2 years.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said seventy times seven. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.