We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nevertheless the passions whether violent or not should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music even in situations of the greatest horror should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it and thereby always remain music.

I love bad movies whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

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.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.