Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the…

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing…

— Samuel Chadwick

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways…

— Alan Bradley

The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -

— Emily Dickinson

What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then die an…

— Yasmin Mogahed

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither…

— Clara Blandick

“The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.”

— Dawn Jayne

I have thought about this issue of abortion time and again. It is not an easy issue for most people. I came to believe…

— Dick Durbin

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if…

— Vera Nazarian

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably…

— Bruce McCall

To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in…

— Jan Struther

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those…

— Pierre Loti

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea…

— Barry S. Strauss

There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap,…

— Joel Greenblatt