Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Portman

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

Taylor Swift

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

Taylor Swift

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.

Taylor Swift

There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you…

Tayari Jones

Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.

Tavis Smiley

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Taraji P. Henson

I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.

Tara Brach

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Takeshi Kitano

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

Judy Blume

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

Judy Blume

you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain

Josh McDowell

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

Josh Sugarmann

Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the total costs to Americans of gun violence (the vast majority of which involves handguns) is measured in tens of billions of dollars.3 In comparison, the wholesale value of the 1.3 million handguns manufactured in America in 1998 totaled only $370 million.

Joshua Harris

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Joseph Butler

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Joseph de Maistre

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Leona Lewis

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

Leona Lewis

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

Leonard Cohen

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

Leonard Cohen

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

Leonard Cohen

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

Layne Staley

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Laurel Lea

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

Laurell K. Hamilton

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.

Laurell K. Hamilton

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

L. Lionel Kendrick

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Some of our struggles involve making decisions, while others are a result of the decisions we have made. Some of our struggles result from choices others make that affect our lives. We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

John Keats

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

John Keats

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is little that can be said about most economic goods. A toothbrush does little but clean teeth. Aspirin does little but dull pain. Alcohol is important mostly for making people more or less drunk ... There being so little to be said, much is to be invented.