Quotes & Sayings About Overcoming Pain Physical

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. — Honore De Balzac

I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time. — Billy Mills

They want to know what I do with all my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. — Ray Bradbury

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition. — Henry David Thoreau

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation. — E. M. Forster

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. — Anthony Burgess

What had he done? Something horrible, something terrible, but something he'd done as a child. Can you commit murder in innocence? It's too big a thing for the human mind to take in, that's the problem. And it grew with the ever-larger newspaper pictures of a girl who was near enough an angel, even before she died. Only the young die good. And Angela Milton died young enough to be perfect. — Jonathan Trigell

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son. — Alethea Kontis

There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role
hero, heroine, or villain ... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure. — Lionel Shriver

And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes. — Elizabeth Strout

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates. — Rafael Cruz