#painful

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#i #look #mirror #painful

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#continuing #disappointed #finding #man #out

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

— Robert Blair

#how #joys #painful #remembrance #return

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#gave #give #hear #her #i

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#bigger #boxing #fought #guys #i

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

— Tea Leoni

#i think #listen #must #one thing #painful

Growth is a painful process. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#painful #process

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#college #daughter #day #debt #door

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later. ↗

— Michael Medved

#california #course #defeat #four #governor

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

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing