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Today’s immoral quick fix is tomorrow’s gaping and painful wound that never heals. – Dianne Marie Teresa Cole	added by anonymous 10 months ago
It is painful, painful for all of the families I know, it just hits home in a unique way when you know one of the victims so well. – Craig Greenberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s also a painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like (Speaker of the House) Cameron Sexton and the Republican party in Tennessee and across the South in this country are not doing nearly enough to prevent guns from getting in the hands of people and doing all of the holistic work of gun prevention that is necessary in places across our communities. – Justin Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I ca n’t sleep at night. I ca n’t sleep. I ca n’t eat. It’s just painful, very painful. I wo n’t wish this on no mother. – Melissa Carter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We will always remember and teach all of that, that is about painful awful history, but there is also a history that is about pride and the culture and the traditions that so many of us have inherited because of that intertwined relationship. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As painful as this has been, had someone else done this before us, our son would still be alive, we want to be that person that saves lives later on. – Brandon Caserta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The strength that Kevin and I had as parents, we had to believe that our babies had that same strength, that they have that same resilience. And so yes, they would have to go through pain, and they’re going to continue going through difficult moments, even through their adult life, not only as premature babies. But we believed that they would have a stronger resolve, a resilience that would enable them to get through those painful moments in the NICU. – Shakina Rajendram	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings. – Liz Dunning	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A penalty shootout is a very uncomfortable event, it’s painful because the pressure is so intense, and of course, the consequences of failing are so dire. Penalties, for me, are wonderful! – Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s painful for me to see what’s happened with Ukraine because I have a family there, i’m torn in all different directions. I have family who doesn’t talk to each other again. – Larissa Saveliev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That was very devastating and very painful. – White American	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A good ghostwriter makes a concerted effort to gain the trust of their subject, they find commonality and create a safe space for the client to feel comfortable opening up about often painful subjects. – Rutger Bruining	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our heritage is technology, and we have a very fierce competitor who has done an amazing job over many, many years, and if your technology, if your value proposition is based in technology, you’ve always gotta be at the forefront. If you were the first to go to every two years, that’d be a painful two years. – Jude Buckley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think that the truth is a real double-edged sword. It’s painful to know, but it’s necessary, i think that those kids deserve to know what happened to their mother, no matter what, and her family and her friends. – Pamela Bardhi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal, we know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved. – Martin Lechtape	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s too painful, as far as reading or watching (the news), I can’t really do it. – Ben Mogen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I sent video to him he can’t stop crying … the tears and painful memory couldn’t stop. – Elisaul Perez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. – Ernest Hemingway	added by Normando 1 year ago
While any seat lost is painful — some good Democrats didn’t win last night — Democrats had a strong night, and we lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president’s first midterm election in the last 40 years, and we had the best midterm for governors since 1986. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is very painful being so abnormal in a world where everyone is so normal, and it is so very painful being so normal when you live in a world where everyone is so abnormal. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 1 year ago
That was so painful — just painful to watch and to see a Black man, of dark complexion, under the knee of a dispassionate White male, it conjured up all kinds of slavery imagery. – Don Samuels	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's fair for people to raise questions. But this really is the best consensus that we have among the experts that this is the best way to go. ... It's just painful to see people dying unnecessarily when there's a free treatment that would prevent their death, i will be at the front of the line at the pharmacy getting my vaccination. – Peter Marks	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Ms. Nancy Davis was put in a horrifically cruel position by the State of Louisiana, left with only two choices : To carry the fetus until its inevitable death or to travel to another state to end the pregnancy weeks after she made the incredibly painful decision to do so. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are in extreme fear, living in this place is very painful. – Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . ''	Found on CNN 1 year ago

Today’s immoral quick fix is tomorrow’s gaping and painful wound that never heals.

– Dianne Marie Teresa Cole

added by anonymous
10 months ago

It is painful, painful for all of the families I know, it just hits home in a unique way when you know one of the victims so well.

– Craig Greenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also a painful moment of recognition that our legislators and people like (Speaker of the House) Cameron Sexton and the Republican party in Tennessee and across the South in this country are not doing nearly enough to prevent guns from getting in the hands of people and doing all of the holistic work of gun prevention that is necessary in places across our communities.

– Justin Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I ca n’t sleep at night. I ca n’t sleep. I ca n’t eat. It’s just painful, very painful. I wo n’t wish this on no mother.

– Melissa Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will always remember and teach all of that, that is about painful awful history, but there is also a history that is about pride and the culture and the traditions that so many of us have inherited because of that intertwined relationship.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As painful as this has been, had someone else done this before us, our son would still be alive, we want to be that person that saves lives later on.

– Brandon Caserta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The strength that Kevin and I had as parents, we had to believe that our babies had that same strength, that they have that same resilience. And so yes, they would have to go through pain, and they’re going to continue going through difficult moments, even through their adult life, not only as premature babies. But we believed that they would have a stronger resolve, a resilience that would enable them to get through those painful moments in the NICU.

– Shakina Rajendram

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For gun violence survivors, this is an incredibly painful milestone to mark, and it arrives earlier and earlier each year, but survivors are increasingly taking action, and demanding our lawmakers stand up to the corporate gun industry and take comprehensive steps to reduce the recent influx of mass shootings.

– Liz Dunning

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A penalty shootout is a very uncomfortable event, it’s painful because the pressure is so intense, and of course, the consequences of failing are so dire. Penalties, for me, are wonderful!

– Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s painful for me to see what’s happened with Ukraine because I have a family there, i’m torn in all different directions. I have family who doesn’t talk to each other again.

– Larissa Saveliev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was very devastating and very painful.

– White American

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A good ghostwriter makes a concerted effort to gain the trust of their subject, they find commonality and create a safe space for the client to feel comfortable opening up about often painful subjects.

– Rutger Bruining

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our heritage is technology, and we have a very fierce competitor who has done an amazing job over many, many years, and if your technology, if your value proposition is based in technology, you’ve always gotta be at the forefront. If you were the first to go to every two years, that’d be a painful two years.

– Jude Buckley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that the truth is a real double-edged sword. It’s painful to know, but it’s necessary, i think that those kids deserve to know what happened to their mother, no matter what, and her family and her friends.

– Pamela Bardhi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The pictures from Lützerath are of course painful, as we have always fought against the continued burning of coal, we know the importance of Lützerath as a symbol in the climate movement. However, this should not obscure what has been achieved.

– Martin Lechtape

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s too painful, as far as reading or watching (the news), I can’t really do it.

– Ben Mogen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I sent video to him he can’t stop crying … the tears and painful memory couldn’t stop.

– Elisaul Perez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

– Ernest Hemingway

added by Normando
1 year ago

While any seat lost is painful — some good Democrats didn’t win last night — Democrats had a strong night, and we lost fewer seats in the House of Representatives than any Democratic president’s first midterm election in the last 40 years, and we had the best midterm for governors since 1986.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is very painful being so abnormal in a world where everyone is so normal, and it is so very painful being so normal when you live in a world where everyone is so abnormal.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
1 year ago

That was so painful — just painful to watch and to see a Black man, of dark complexion, under the knee of a dispassionate White male, it conjured up all kinds of slavery imagery.

– Don Samuels

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's fair for people to raise questions. But this really is the best consensus that we have among the experts that this is the best way to go. ... It's just painful to see people dying unnecessarily when there's a free treatment that would prevent their death, i will be at the front of the line at the pharmacy getting my vaccination.

– Peter Marks

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ms. Nancy Davis was put in a horrifically cruel position by the State of Louisiana, left with only two choices : To carry the fetus until its inevitable death or to travel to another state to end the pregnancy weeks after she made the incredibly painful decision to do so.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are in extreme fear, living in this place is very painful.

– Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . ''

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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