I’m upset that ‘Dastaan’ is ending. After working so hard, to see it end abruptly is painful.
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
Don’t crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it’s really painful. People think it’s necessary, but it’s painful for the animal, and it’s completely unnecessary.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there’s a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Policing language and even legislating against certain behaviours will only go so far to address the pervasive problem of racial bias. To get at the root cause we must have open, honest and sometimes painful conversations.
It wasn’t easy to shoot for ‘Baahubali.’ It was very painful and annoying.
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the ‘good old days’ when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he’s playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking ‘oh my God, I’m going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that’s going to be painful.’
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
It’s also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we’re better and have more to give and are more fun now.
I got married two weeks before my mom passed away, and then a year later, I was receiving some kind of artistic success that I’d never had. All of these really beautiful things happened where I was in love and I had a career I loved, but it was all kind of under the shadow of this really dark and painful thing.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
I was injured by an enemy hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. I spent three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center… And through that three years, I was forced to search for the silver linings during the long dark and painful nights and days in the hospital.
In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I’m not an extrovert, this is painful for me.
I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That’s not true.
I went to see Oliver Stone’s ‘Heaven & Earth,’ which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.
Everyone sees something different in ‘Endgame’: a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth – not about the play, but about the person watching it.
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn’t put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.
I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned – both the good ones and the bad ones – that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don’t act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it’s always going to be the same.
Remembering is painful, it’s difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.
The first thing I said if I sat on the Iron Throne would probably be, ‘Ouch!’ It’s actually painful because it’s made of swords. But my first Royal Edict would be, ‘Somebody get rid of this damn chair!’
Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can’t read that.
Race is such a contentious issue because of the painful history of racism. Race didn’t create racism, but racism created race.
I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations… have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.
Life is painful, nasty and short… in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It’s the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.
There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before – ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don’t care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.
One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything’s OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
If you don’t define the problem you’ll never reach a painful solution.
I’m tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn’t always fun. It’s fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.
You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people – it’s not pleasant, it’s painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.
For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn’t do it, but I don’t love the theater as much as I love movies.
Corruption is Ukraine’s main enemy; we must destroy it. It’s really painful to hear that Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.
