Painfully Quotes

202 Painfully quotes by 177 unique authors

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is… — Irving Penn
As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud… — Kim Basinger
If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully… — Gabrielle Union
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's… — Penn Jillette
I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me. — Kathy Ireland
Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the… — Anna Kavan
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I like dogs better than knights. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.… — George R. R. Martin
...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she… — Will Schwalbe
I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up… — Lance Armstrong
Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance… — Robert Kennedy
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his… — Albert Einstein
I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies… — Brad Paisley
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top… — Steven Rattner
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. — William Greider
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but… — Parker J. Palmer
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to… — Albrecht Durer
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is… — Nigel Cole
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do,… — Alex Flinn
Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy… — Wayne D. Dosick
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek… — William Shakespeare
When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in… — Vincent Van Gogh
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. — Paul Klee
I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens… — Unknown Author
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous… — H.G. Wells

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