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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. Thomas Sowell

Freedom Too Much Too Cost Relinquished Price Cheap Blood Rhetoric Much Agony

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. Virginia Woolf

Every Some Points Observant Fellow Who Agony

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. James E. Faust

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently. Amity Shlaes

Life Government Best You Blame People Own Reputation Has-Been Kind Responsible Only No Wonder Take Do Your Best Policies Partly Policy Permanently Leave Go Been Wonder Person Maybe After Which Average Realize Your Agony Lucky Suffer Damaged Appreciated

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony. C. S. Lewis

Me Joy Prosperity Unlike Security Seems Almost Real Agony

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. Elizabeth Wurtzel

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. Everett Dirksen

Past Through Over Been Years Five Times Quiet Going Different Again Agony Appears Different Times Now Four

It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. Alan Greenspan

Exhausted Down Markets Prolongs Perceived Only Prevent Merely Trying Going Just Them Turn Themselves Agony Downside

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. Albert Claude

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months. Alexandra Fuller

Good Me Word Job Matters Every Months Only Except Writer Vomit Stuff Over Like Up Labor Close Childbirth Just Being Eighteen The Only Thing Sweat Working Agony Thing

For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to be really profound, and then when I set it down on paper, I find the power of the idea has been hugely weakened in the process of transmission. Alexandra Fuller

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by. Amanda Lindhout

Family Terrorism Mother Try Father Wife Husband Further Telling About Through Support Maintaining Powerless Also Caught Still Line Provide Governments Canadian While Hard Payments Standing Agony Many Including

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy. Barry Hannah

God You People Comedy Think Damn Damn Thing Other Earth Solve About Above Seems Involved Because Ceases Just Unhappiness Toil Useless Agony Thing Funniest

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli

Life Grief Instant Indulgence Blunder Agony

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. Clara Schumann

Me Memory Fear Single Other Threatens Give Fail Days Piece Concert Because Terror Beforehand After Cannot Which Agony Play

I got Osgood-Schlatter disease in my knees because my bones were growing quicker than my muscles, and it's hard to get out on the training pitch; then, afterwards, you're in agony every single time you play football. Danny Welbeck

Time You Training Single Every Every Single Time Out Football Knees Because Got Single Time Were Quicker Than Get Disease Pitch Afterwards Then Hard Agony Growing Play Play Football Muscles Bones

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there? Daphne Guinness

Love Time You Love Is Wonderful Complicated Fall Meet Some About Someone Something Never Most Involved Always Been Wonderful Thing Quite Straightforward Agony Now Ever Right Thing

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. David Cronenberg

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. Eric Liu

Made Stage Hundred Jobs One-Man Cost Shadowy Only Performer Ecstasy Steve Steve Jobs Couple Because Does Arresting iPhone Dollars Depicted China Mike Show Products Agony Company Why Apple

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony. Ethan Canin

Happiness Life Time Writing Think Guess Spend Books Pleasure Carpentry One Of The Things Something Like Sort None Least Essential So Much Time Much Working Producing Agony Why Things

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion. Fredric March

Character Illusion Year Suitable Top Tricky Finding Featured Lifetime Head Merely Maintaining Uneasy Just Being Stories Agony Downgrade Star Stardom Seat Keeping Player Competent Last Two

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Harold Coffin

Contentment Ten More Ten Years Days Learns Years Than Often Agony

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