quotes about Agonizing
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
-- Agnes de Mille -
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
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If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.
-- Chris Guillebeau -
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
-- Diego RiveraSource : Diego Rivera, Gladys March (1960). “My art, my life: an autobiography”
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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.
-- Joe Manchin -
Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change
-- Jordan SonnenblickSource : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.
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Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
-- Julianna Baggott -
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We have substituted organizing for agonizing and equipment for endowment.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
-- Max BrooksSource : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.116, Broadway Books
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
-- Rachel Held Evans -
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No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.
-- Simon Roberts -
In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch as to sometimes seem threatening, numbing, even agonizing.
-- Tom Shales -
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey -