54 Painfully Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought. Kabir Bedi

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level. Kaya Scodelario

Me Dyslexic People Mother Single Believe Immigrant Something Could Had Like Single Mother Child Just Acting Painfully Professional Level Shy

Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. Laura Dern

Work About Something Inventors Hysterical True Because Getting Just Stories Painfully Whole Deeply Cared Career Filmmakers

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. Lorraine Bracco

Down Everything Way Empty Coming Going Painfully

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days. Lucy Deakins

Days Person Painfully Shy Shy Person

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. Moby

Art Rather Naive Go Moby Than Much Show Painfully

It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs. Monica Johnson

Sometimes Own Our See Wrapped Obvious Affairs Up American Painfully

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.' Nathan Fillion

Day Class School Nervous Clown Sick Bit One Day Kinda Class Clown Wow He Exciting Stepped Until Another Said Grade Transferred Little Little Bit Fifth Painfully Shy

'Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires. Nick Sagan

Life Impossible Space Beauty Become Hypnotic Hostile Environment Unsympathetic How Human Heavens Unforgiving Warned Painfully Amidst Aware Desires

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man. Patrick White

Life Man Writing Beginning Tree Earth About Developed Began In The Beginning Which Again Sentence Then Painfully Novel

When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time. Paul Weller

Time Cause Long Long Time First Down Believe Later Bit Though Gig Through Put Head Suppose She Got Still Doing Been Years Done Going Just Little Little Bit Painfully Many Even Mum Play Shy

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal. Philip Schultz

Love Day Great Great Deal Slow Reading About Selective Read Reader Because Deal Very Mean Painfully Therefore Fast Careful

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers. Ronda Rousey

Work Time Me Long Long Time Year Strangers Think Way Spent Out One Thing Scared Something Had Forced Because Just The One Thing After Conversations Mean Really Painfully Whole Thing Start Shy Olympics

'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well. Shaun King

Thought Made National President Our Presidents Telling Wilson Never Most Well Anthem Been National Anthem Woodrow Woodrow Wilson Banner Bigoted Elected Painfully Chose Ever Widely

I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now painfully adept at removing my shoes so as to have the least amount of foot surface area touching an airport floor. Sloane Crosley

Time Reading Shoes Adept Pleasure Airplane Definitely Airport Touching My Time Area Foot Removing Rediscovered Surface Am Least Sitting Painfully Large Now Floor Amount

The general reactions were that the video was either not going to load, or be painfully slow to load, or would require a plug-in users didn't have. YouTube changed that, because it just works. Steve Krug

Slow YouTube Changed Would General Reactions Because Were Going Just Either Video Require Painfully Users Works Load

I spent my workdays at Skype creating a more connected world. We were shrinking the distances between people, making it easier to connect across countries. Then I'd go to my bank to transfer my euros to pounds, and it was like going back in time 50 years: expensive, inconvenient, and painfully slow. It was a nightmare. Taavet Hinrikus

Time People World Slow Back Distances Spent Easier More Pounds Between Countries Like Making Go Were Years Going Bank Expensive Transfer Then Creating Across Painfully Connect Connected Skype Shrinking Inconvenient Nightmare

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun. Tamsin Greig

Life Hope Have Fun Comedy Achieve Perspective Own Think My Own Stems Also Often Being Being Honest Painfully Fun Honest

Painfully to attain possession of what we do not want, and then painfully to waste our days in attempting to rid ourselves of it, seems to be a part of our discipline here below. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Discipline Our Possession Ourselves Seems Attain Attempting Part Days Want Then Painfully Rid Waste Here Below

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. William Greider

Do-It-Yourself Pensions Learned Version American Painfully Many Flop

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