To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you dont belong. — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Donald Trump always puts himself first. He built a business career, in the words of one of his own campaign staffers, "off… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader… — Walter Wangerin Copy Share Image
If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in… — Don King Copy Share Image
Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful. — Gavin DeGraw Copy Share Image
