#painful

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. ↗

— George Eliot

#conscientious #course #duty #most #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

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. ↗

— Patrick White

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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

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. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#basic #citizens #cut #governors #grappling

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. ↗

— William Greider

#flop #learned #many #painfully #pensions

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

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