#painful

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor. ↗

— Peter Welch

#casting #congress #debt #debt limit #favor

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#effort #further #gets #himself #man

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. ↗

— William Glasser

#deal #great #great deal #happened #in the past

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#around #bonds #burst #caught #eager

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#day #experiences #explode #going #got

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. ↗

— Martha Beck

#good #how #matter #may #nothing

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#although #essential #frustration #painful #part

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

— Marton Csokas

#like #look #painful #quite #repetition

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#another #because #causing #depends #disruption