#painful

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. ↗

— Amos Oz

#been #between #claim #clash #conflict

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#before #due #during #easily #either

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#early #hard #i #learned #me

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#fun #i #involved #market #painful

There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#bitterness #cynicism #even #kind #more

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#decencies #dwell #endeavour #ever #finds

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful. ↗

— Ali Larter

#exciting #feeling #fiery #i #just

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#believe #black #book #bother #difficult

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#could #family #i #i wish #most

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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