Pains Quotes - page 13

Eichmann was personally a cowardly man, who was at great pains to protect himself from responsibility... He was amoral and completely ice cold in his attitude. (Adolf Eichmann)
The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years. So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears. View quote
Hester Thrale
I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola. View quote
Ezra Koenig
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The early years of the United Nations have been difficult ones, but what did we expect? That peace would drift down from the skies like soft snow? That there would be no ordeal, no anguish, no testing, in this greatest of all human undertakings? Any great institution or idea must suffer its pains of birth and growth. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. View quote
Eric Holder
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, But virtue consoles us even in our pains. (William Cowper)
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
The Barbarian hopes - and that is the very mark of him - that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Work for them was joy itself and the deep root of their being. And the reason of their being. There was an incredible honor in work, the most beautiful of all the honors. ... We have known this devotion to l'ouvrage bien faite, to the good job, carried and maintained to its most exacting claims. ... Today, what remains of all this? How has ... the only people that loved to work ... been transformed into one which in the workyard takes the greatest pains not to lift a hand? View quote
Charles Péguy
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. View quote
Julie Burchill
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve for at the workingmans house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Men take more pains to mask than to mend. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
No gain without pains. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
So, when my Days of Impotence approach, And I'm by Pox and Wine's unlucky chance Driv'n from the pleasing Billows of debauch On the dull Shore of lazy Temperance;My Pains at least some Respite shall afford While I behold the Battles you maintain When Fleets of Glasses sail about the Board, From whose Broad-sides Volleys of Wit shall rain. (John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester)
Now, in our opinion, no author should be blamed for obscurity; nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry. View quote
Alice Meynell
The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. View quote
Colin Wilson
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse. View quote
Francis Bacon
Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit - the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge. From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. View quote
John Muir