Painful Quotations

What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

Police chiefs like myself are going to say, 'We like our guy. Don't move him. But my interests may not be identical to the FBI as an organization. It has got to force those painful choices on its staff.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.