Painful Quotes

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.

The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.