Pains Quotes

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.