#pain

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

— Archibald McLeish

#learning #more #one thing #only #painful

I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#cobbled #down #i #industrial #lived

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#boss #bring #fact #get #going

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

— George McGovern

#handicap #i #most #painful #presence

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#composition #elements #essential #essential elements #father

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny. ↗

— Mario Monti

#even #goes #italy #more #scrutiny

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#call #constancy #democracy #down #forces

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#artist #human #i #i am #i think

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#dire #effects #i #minds #pain

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#because #gave #hated #pain #pleasure