Wole Soyinka Quotes
Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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That's painful always to lose.
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Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.
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Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
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I was struggling. I couldn't really go to the basket as quick as I wanted to. When I did it was real painful.
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Falling in love is painful on the knees.
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Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.
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Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
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Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.
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Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
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There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
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Saab has really turned the corner. It is close to making money as a brand.
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So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.
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Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
