I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet,… — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't care about having a legacy, I don't care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we're… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
“When I'm near you, I can feel you in here." She pressed her hand against her heart. "And when you're gone, there's… — Tina Folsom Copy Share Image
It hurts to smile when you know it'll only last a little while. So you probably fake the smile to save yourself… — Francine Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The feeling of pain never leaves. With every beat of my heart, I am reminded that it remains. It festers within me… — Scott Hildreth Copy Share Image
In the past, I was definitely more apt to storing pain away and not worrying about it. But as I get older,… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
“Pain slammed into my entire body as I remembered another little boy who’d hugged like this…with everything he was. I felt tears… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding in the shadows, far more… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never… — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt 'The Moment of No… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I feel like there's such ancient pain in us as humans. For instance, we come from this patriarchal lineage where women have… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
Growing up I couldn't always get involved with the activities with all the other kids because if I overworked my body it… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very… — C Joybell C Copy Share Image
Like most people, I have encountered my own share of pain as I have advanced along the path of life. But I… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the… — Lauren Fleshman Copy Share Image
