Painful Reminders Quotes & Sayings

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others. — Paul Harris

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out. — Will Rogers

Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth. — Alan Garner

Sometimes when you hire people who have to pass a Mr. Congeniality test, you end up losing some of the non-conformists who will give you different views and perspectives. — Nolan Bushnell

Maybe he knew I'd need to smile. — Kiera Cass

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems. — Clayton Christensen

Both physical and social pain seem less painful when we're cushioned by symbolic reminders of money, even when the money isn't real or doesn't belong to us. — Adam Alter

Everywhere was filled with painful, jarring reminders of what I'd lost: an elderly couple sitting on a bench, gnarly, arthritic fingers interlaced; a handsome young man in a baseball cap whispering something in his pregnant wife's ear, his arm draped protectively around her shoulders. — Catherine Sanderson

(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.) — Tim Kreider

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed - not sex - but sex was how we got there. — Amy Hempel

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends. — Sarah Domet

sometimes that pain is necessary in order to move forward. There are times when those painful reminders drive us to be stronger." She — Melissa Foster

The Phrygians ... select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Honest folks, born and bred in a visible manner, were mostly not overwise or clever _ at least, not beyond such a matter as knowing the signs of the weather; and the process by which rapidity and dexterity of any kind were acquired was so wholly hidden, that they partook of the nature of conjuring. — George Eliot

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth. — Karen Katafiasz

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers? — Liane Moriarty

Life is simpler when we feel controlled. When we tell ourselves that we are controlled, we can shift the responsibility of freeing ourselves onto that which controls us. When we do that, we don't have to bear the responsibility of our unhappiness or shoulder the burden of self-ownership. We don't have to do anything. And nothing will ever change. — Ken Ilgunas