Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part… — Banks Copy Share Image
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber,… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal,… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
Now is the time to take stock of a painful part of our history. Only then can we move past it. Anything… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image