Pains Quotes

609 Pains quotes by 439 unique authors

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I… — Gottfried Leibniz
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical… — David Starr Jordan
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers… — Annie Besant
Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987,… — Diablo Cody
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains. — Neil Young
Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the… — Laura Ramirez
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. — Knute Rockne
It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here. — Ruth Simmons
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape.… — Terry Pratchett
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures… — Samuel Johnson
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. — Socrates
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have… — James A. Baldwin
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home… — Karl Radek
Television always carried me: be it at my beginnings in small series and telefilms, or through my success in Kasamh Se and Bade Acche Lagte… — Ram Kapoor
The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the eternities. Intimate in… — Merrill J. Bateman
A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them. — Cyrus the Great
Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck-you'll stay exactly where you are. Train… — Chalene Johnson
The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living. — Wayne Muller
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,… — Henri Nouwen
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains,… — Maya Angelou
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. — Piers Anthony
We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment,… — Jack Kornfield
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of… — Richard Wurmbrand
The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do… — Brice Marden

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