Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“From the day she left him with no words, his soul is the most heaviest thing on the planet - Wretched” — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and… — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
It's interesting to have the awkward moments play out, and the real human interactions. The more you cut that down, you lose… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
Cancer was the most terrifying, arduous, painful thing, but it was also a profound gift in the sense that I was holding… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It felt like an indulgence. Going back was painful, but, at the same time, it was nice to live with them again… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image