Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Lewis

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

Melissa Etheridge

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

Melissa Etheridge

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.

Max Lucado

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Matthew Henry

Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Meg Whitman

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Matthew McConaughey

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.

Matthew McConaughey

In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.

Plato

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Martin Sheen

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

John Updike

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

John Stuart Mill

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Nick Cave

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Myrtle Reed

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

Mike McGavick

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

Marianne Williamson

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Mark Rothko

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

Mac Miller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

Lorna Luft

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Michael Sandel

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

Alexandre Dumas

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Albert Schweitzer

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Right now it's just precautionary. I want to be pain-free and ready to go all out when the season starts.

I wish I could paint like that again, but I don't want to go there again.

Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

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

James Caan

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

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.

Gary Zukav

Clarity is the perception of wisdom and the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world. It turns pain into suffering and evaporates fear. Clarity allows you to see the world of physical matter for what it is, a learning experience that is created jointly by the intentions of the souls that share it.