Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sterling Marlin

So now I have somebody to share my pain with.

The worst is over but the most painful part is yet to come.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Billy Graham

therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!

Billy Graham

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

Billy Graham

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

Billy Graham

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Billy Graham

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

Jason LaRue

Everything is as expected. There's no pain, but we still have to get the swelling out so I can squat.

Bartolo Colon

There's no comparison. In spring training it was more tightness. This is more pain in the back.

Fanny Burney

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

Fanny Burney

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Fannie Hurst

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

Ezra Pound

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

Evel Knievel

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Eve Ensler

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

Eve Ensler

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Euripides

There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

Euripides

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Euripides

Time cancels young pain.

Francis Picabia

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Francis of Assisi

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

Francis Bacon

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Harriet Martineau

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Harper Lee

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

Gregory Benford

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.