#painful

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#death #guilt #most #painful #perhaps

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

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

— George Eliot

#conscientious #course #duty #most #painful

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#done #may #money #never #painful

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore. ↗

— Ang Lee

#couple #doing #full #going #i

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#character #elegance #happy #inner #men

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. ↗

— Chris Martin

#agree #although #most #negatively #ones