Painful Quotes

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

It's painful to consider anything but writing.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

People die because they find living too painful.

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Sometimes compromise is painful.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.

Growth is a painful process.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Romantic love is painful.