Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrienne Barbeau

Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.

Jesse Jackson

I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.

William Wilberforce

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

Richard Barnfield

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Richard Baxter

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Rebecca West

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

Richard Bach

Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.

Ryan Lochte

Pain is temporarily, but pride last forever

Ryan Lochte

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

Chad Reitz

I was looking forward to the 2005 season when things fell apart. I ended up in a dispute with my sister (Chanda) and father (Les) about our race team, and we parted ways. It was a bitter ending and there are still a lot of hard feelings.

Jimmy Marston

He was bitter and sad after the war. It was the dividing point in the Marston family. Before the war, the family lived in Clinton. After the war, they lived in north Louisiana.

Joanne Cortese

He kept his wit and humor right to the bitter end.

John Beasley

Harvesting at optimal maturity is extremely important as far as flavor is concerned. We know from previous research and from the industry that when immature peanut kernels are processed, they develop a bitter or off-flavor taste.

Pedro Martinez

It could happen in any game, but you know what? I don't hold any grudges. He's probably bitter still, but I'm just going to continue to pray for him, and hopefully it will get better, his temper will change. I still have respect for his bat, he's a good hitter and I'm just going to continue to do what I have to do. And I was glad that, when I'm OK, I don't need to hit anybody.

William Butler Yeats

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

W. Somerset Maugham

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

Marcus Green

You could tell the quarterback was getting frustrated. We just really wanted to erase the bitter taste in our mouths.

Ella Wilcox

The life that neither grief nor burden knowsIs dwarfed in sympathy before its close.The life that grows majestic with the yearsMust taste the bitter tonic found in tears.