I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.
There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps. . . then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
God, it's so painful when something that's so close is still so far out of reach.
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.
At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.
I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.
I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.
Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.
It's painful to consider anything but writing.
Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.
[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.