#painful

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful. ↗

— Edmund H. North

#emotional #getting #luxury #much #painful

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. ↗

— Kim Novak

#acting #fame #i #loved #meaning

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#case #desire #distortions #every #factual

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#between #chasm #creator #every #experiences

If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#never #painful #problem #reach #solution

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe. ↗

— Ovid

#believe #painful #slow #where

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. ↗

— John Pople

#better #chemistry #clearly #decision #england

In the end, it’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#painful #truth #change

..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#crying #love #omg #painful #beauty

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#life-and-living #pain #painful-memories #death