#painful

Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#citizens #concessions #durable #existence #far

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me. ↗

— Susan Smith

#day #each #extremely #face #faith

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. ↗

— David Soul

#anger #arrested #awful #begun #called

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#case #desire #distortions #every #factual

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

#both #challenge #childhood #describing #happens

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#career #could #had #i #i do

In the end, it’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#painful #truth #change

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing? ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#life-and-living #pain #painful-memories #death

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#collection #experience #happen #later #mistakes

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ↗