#painful

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#gilded #i #incredibly #jets #lonely

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#getting #just #lose #loses #make

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#feel #here #like #painful #part

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#agree #became #china #competition #could

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor. ↗

— Peter Welch

#casting #congress #debt #debt limit #favor

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #henry #henry james #james #mr

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

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

— Roger Bannister

#effort #further #gets #himself #man

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#get #happened #him #i #living