The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.
Judd Gregg

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
Leonard Woolf

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

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
Sylvia Browne

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
James Newman

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
Steven Hatfill

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
Tea Leoni

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Anne Sullivan Macy

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

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
Pamela Stephenson

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow

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

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald McLeish

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
Pamela Stephenson

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.
Skeet Ulrich

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
Barry Diller

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough