Quotes of Painfully - somelinesforyou

“ Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. ”

- Sir Anthony Eden

“ Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ”

- Cleveland Amory

“ Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ”

- Robert Crumb

“ If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America, painfully brief. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. ”

- J. A. Spender

“ Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't — then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves… ”

- Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky

“ Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ”

- D. H. Lawrence
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