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Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.
I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.
Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.
The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
My parents' divorce was very difficult. Divorce is essentially incredibly painful, but it's also an essential part of life.
Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.
One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did
All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.
My songwriting process is painful. Songwriting is brilliant. It's a load of fun - when it works. It's really difficult as well.
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
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.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
I completely, 100 percent got bullied, and I'd still stick up for myself and try to be strong, but it was always so deeply painful.
Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.
There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.
My stepfather was fond of letting me know, quote, 'I ain't your... damn daddy.' That was something that was painful, to put it mildly.
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.