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The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war. — Menachem Begin
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses, and one thousand… — Kevin Myers
Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now — Eyedea
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. — Henrik Ibsen
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony… — H. L. Mencken
Joy requires one to be awake, Adjusting the heart's ambience to bright. Some prefer the dark, as is their right, On grounds of agony, and… — Nick Gordon
I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having… — Ian Fleming
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist… — Oswald Chambers
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,… — John Cheever
In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the… — Frederick Lenz
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the… — Mark Twain
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony. — Jeffrey Archer
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I… — Britt Ekland
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one… — Blaise Pascal
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and… — Tom Van Vleck
When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that… — Barry Hannah
Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life. — Ludacris
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is… — Zora Neale Hurston

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