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  • When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

    Pain   Long   Abortion  
    Address to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, delivered 30 January 1984, Sheraton Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
  • As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

    Running   Self   Romance  
  • Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away.

    Artist   Trying   Three  
    "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.
  • I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there isn't enough liquor or art or any other distraction in the world to do it. I had to stop going to Wolfe's because it was too hard being that close to you, even if it was all just pretend fighting. I couldn't stand the touching. It was agonizing because it meant something to me-and I knew it meant nothing to you. I kept telling myself to stay away altogether, and then I'd find excuses… like the car… anything to be around you again.

    Art   Stupid   Believe  
    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.323, Penguin
  • There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.

    Ideas   Sitting   Levels  
  • In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

    Grief   Silence   Tears  
  • How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

  • Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

    Men   Long   Anxiety  
  • Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

    Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
  • In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.

    Fun   Fever   Agonizing  
  • Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

    Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.
  • Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

  • There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

  • It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

    Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "master"”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

    Men   Thinking   Self  
  • If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

    Attitude   Pride   Ideas  
    Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
  • Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

    Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.175, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.

  • I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

    Ideas   Looks   World  
    "The Search for a Soul". Book by Jess Stearn, 1972.
  • I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

    Kids   Writing   Thinking  
    Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Twins”, p.188, Open Road Media
  • Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

  • It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

    Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.68, Penguin
  • I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.

    Writing   Years   Done  
    Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”
  • Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

    Men   Agonizing   Bread  
    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  • There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  • Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

    Prayer   Sweat   Soul  
  • Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

    Play   Lovely   Agonizing  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.758, e-artnow
  • Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.

    Son   Order   World  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
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