Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.
Anne Northup

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
Piers Anthony

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Walter Kaufmann

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.
Junichiro Koizumi

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
Margaret Mead

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Chauncey Wright

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
Karl Radek

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Tavis Smiley

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
Otis Rush

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
John Dryden

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Michel de Montaigne

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
George Crabbe

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
George Washington

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
Aeschylus

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
Laurence Sterne

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Richard Russo