We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.
If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.
Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged. " And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.
Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.
Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success. . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
As an actor, especially one who's worked in casting, you read so many scripts, and some of them are terrible. They're terrible and they're getting made, and some of them are good but the female role is just painful or underwritten. So after years of that, I had this idea kicking around in my head for two years, and I thought, I'm just going to start writing.
Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.