Top 1200 Painful Times Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

The kinds of cases that fall at the end of pregnancy are often the most heartbreaking, painful decisions for families to make.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages.

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.

Stone's Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison.

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

Making art can be maddening at times and frustrating and not always rewarding, frequently not rewarding. But you do it because you believe in it and you do it as a passion that drives you, and it sustains you during those lean times.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times, and then one night it'll flop.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

I work free-weights and do circuit training with my trainer 4-5 times a week. I also train in Brazilian Ju Jitsu several times a week.

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

Reading and watching movies are the only two things I do. I'm moody, so at times I'm annoyingly introverted; at other times I'm annoyingly extroverted. So I think I'm an ambivert!

At times I think and at times I am.

When times are changing, I change with the times.

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

As a player I had some good times but people forget I had a lot of hard times to get there; seven years in the lower divisions.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.