Painfully Quotes

202 quotes by 177 authors

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in… — Gore Vidal
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carrâ€™s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speakâ€”a whispering that… — Eileen Myles
Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult. — Patrick Lencioni
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves… — Barack Obama
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new… — Thomas Sowell
The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom — Jeff Buckley
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid… — Hermann Hesse
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. — Hyman Rickover
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your… — E T A Hoffmann
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or… — Ernest Cline
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step,… — Thomas Guthrie
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It… — Matt Chandler
How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have… — Elizabeth Hay
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. — Robert A. Heinlein
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and… — Anna Lindh
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,… — Sri Aurobindo

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