Painful Quotes - Page 10

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

On the Continent, every attempt to substitute a lighter punishment for death was fiercely denounced as a direct violation of the Divine law. Indeed, some persons went so far as to question the lawfulness of strangling the witch before she was burnt. Her crime, they said, was treason against the Almighty, and therefore to punish it by any but the most agonizing deaths was an act of disrespect to Him. Besides, the penalty in the Levitical code was stoning, and stoning had been pronounced by the Jewish theologians to be a still more painful death than the stake.

It's painful and it's messy. But sometimes you just have to make the break and start again.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.