Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Gaffigan

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

Jesse Owens

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day.

Jesse Jackson

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Jennifer Lawrence

I was having chest pains. Photoshop made it glamorous.

Jennifer Lopez

People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Jean Ingelow

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

James Caan

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

James A. Baldwin

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

James A. Baldwin

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

James A. Baldwin

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

James A. Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Jacqueline Carey

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Jacqueline Carey

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

Jacqueline Carey

I wondered if he could ever understand that it was a blessing, not a sin, to be graced with more than one love. It could be complicated; of course it could be complicated. And it opened one up to the possibility of more pain and loss. Still, it was a blessing I would never relinquish. Love, genuine love, was always a cause for joy.

Jacqueline Carey

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

George Eliot

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

George Eliot

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

George Eliot

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

George Eliot

It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience has brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling within us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength. We can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians can wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas.

George Eliot

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Geoffrey Holder

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Frank Iero

I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.

George Herbert

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

George Herbert

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Chris Hedges

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.