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It was up to us — Michelle and I — to persuade him, he always listened to us, but we knew that this time it was going to be a hard sell. I hate telling Barack what he does n’t want to hear. I knew this was going to be the most painful talk I ’d ever had with him. – Valerie Jarrett	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It was pitch black and before I knew it, I was in midair falling off a cliff. I was honestly thinking I wouldn’t survive, i hit my head a few times and landed with a big bump. I was screaming in pain. It was the most painful thing ever. I felt like a total vegetable. I felt completely vulnerable. I couldn’t move anything. – Hannah Gavios	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This madness has to stop. We have difficult, painful and essential work ahead of us to repair the (damage) between the police and the community. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Thongs shouldn’t be painful, if you notice it’s there, it’s too small. – Leah Millheiser	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
My challenge now as first minister is to work out how I best protect Scotland's interests, how I try to prevent us being taken out of the EU against our will with all of the deeply damaging and painful consequences that that will entail. – Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Whether they succeed in this is another story, whether they have the mindset for this type of work is also another story, it will be a painful test for these companies who are not that experienced in building small downstream demand. – Thierry Bros	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It will be a painful test for these companies who are not that experienced in building small downstream demand. – Thierry Bros	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My back was a bit painful at the start but it went away, i think we are where we want to be, which is getting better. – Lionel Messi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What's going to be even more painful for the families who have lost their homes, the heads of companies who have lost their businesses, the employees who will be unable to go to work, is that the drop in the water level will be very slow. – Environment Minister Segolene Royal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In order to balance the market, we'll need to see high-cost production come offline. And that's going to be painful. – Roy Hill	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you're in the trenches, you want to have a machine gun, a grenade, a mine on hand, there are also different needs depending on individual markets, so regional sales staff naturally can't be happy when the company moves to rationalize and restructure from a global structure. The transition process is painful. – Kim Gae-youn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of sport schools are moving in this direction...but this is a painful process, at present the existing thought is that education and training are two different routes -- if you want to be a world champion you cannot study. This belief is wrong...and at the end of the day very few become champions. – Liu Zige	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're glad that we're able to resolve both of these cases so we can avoid potentially painful litigation and put these cases behind us, we're turning a corner here because we've resolved the last two very large cases that were involving the district. – Gregory McNair	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
New language, new environment, familiar friends and family out of the picture, the list of painful challenges goes on and on for them. – Intermountain Therapy Animals	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It wasn’t painful, just slightly uncomfortable, afterward, my face felt warm, was slightly red and a bit swollen. It appeared as if I had sunburn. – Linda Pietk	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Some neighbors haven't come back. It's too painful for them to return. Many innocent people, women and children, were killed. – Jesus Alebio Portillo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's painful in the moment sometimes, people are not used to those things. – Ray Dalio	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This monument represents our history — a painful part of our nation’s history for many — and it’s best moved to a new location. – Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is likely a combination of known negatives that are driving the increased cost focus from Boeing, in some ways it is easier for management to point to external pressures, i.e. Airbus, when justifying painful belt tightening. – Rob Stallard	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's very painful that so many people's (lives) were destroyed, that such a beautiful, new town was abandoned. It's hard on the soul. – Elena Kupriyanova	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It’s not quite as painful, there’s not quite the injustice. – Connie Gruber	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What I want most to tell people is, 'Don't underestimate your abilities. There are things you cannot do but there are lots of things you can do, so do not despair, the most painful thing is when someone says 'I am pitiable'. I am not pitiable. There are inconveniences, but I am not unhappy. – Masahiko Sato	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The most painful thing is when someone says 'I am pitiable'. I am not pitiable. There are inconveniences, but I am not unhappy. – Masahiko Sato	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Look those are the rules, but the expectations people have of democracy are very different now, in the age of the internet which is a kind of very flat structure. Everyone's a precious snowflake, you know. The idea that your vote doesn't matter, I think that's a much more painful and hard to reconcile idea than it would have been even thirty years ago. – Tucker Carlson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

It was up to us — Michelle and I — to persuade him, he always listened to us, but we knew that this time it was going to be a hard sell. I hate telling Barack what he does n’t want to hear. I knew this was going to be the most painful talk I ’d ever had with him.

– Valerie Jarrett

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It was pitch black and before I knew it, I was in midair falling off a cliff. I was honestly thinking I wouldn’t survive, i hit my head a few times and landed with a big bump. I was screaming in pain. It was the most painful thing ever. I felt like a total vegetable. I felt completely vulnerable. I couldn’t move anything.

– Hannah Gavios

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This madness has to stop. We have difficult, painful and essential work ahead of us to repair the (damage) between the police and the community.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Thongs shouldn’t be painful, if you notice it’s there, it’s too small.

– Leah Millheiser

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

My challenge now as first minister is to work out how I best protect Scotland's interests, how I try to prevent us being taken out of the EU against our will with all of the deeply damaging and painful consequences that that will entail.

– Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Whether they succeed in this is another story, whether they have the mindset for this type of work is also another story, it will be a painful test for these companies who are not that experienced in building small downstream demand.

– Thierry Bros

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be a painful test for these companies who are not that experienced in building small downstream demand.

– Thierry Bros

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My back was a bit painful at the start but it went away, i think we are where we want to be, which is getting better.

– Lionel Messi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What's going to be even more painful for the families who have lost their homes, the heads of companies who have lost their businesses, the employees who will be unable to go to work, is that the drop in the water level will be very slow.

– Environment Minister Segolene Royal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In order to balance the market, we'll need to see high-cost production come offline. And that's going to be painful.

– Roy Hill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you're in the trenches, you want to have a machine gun, a grenade, a mine on hand, there are also different needs depending on individual markets, so regional sales staff naturally can't be happy when the company moves to rationalize and restructure from a global structure. The transition process is painful.

– Kim Gae-youn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of sport schools are moving in this direction...but this is a painful process, at present the existing thought is that education and training are two different routes -- if you want to be a world champion you cannot study. This belief is wrong...and at the end of the day very few become champions.

– Liu Zige

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're glad that we're able to resolve both of these cases so we can avoid potentially painful litigation and put these cases behind us, we're turning a corner here because we've resolved the last two very large cases that were involving the district.

– Gregory McNair

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

New language, new environment, familiar friends and family out of the picture, the list of painful challenges goes on and on for them.

– Intermountain Therapy Animals

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It wasn’t painful, just slightly uncomfortable, afterward, my face felt warm, was slightly red and a bit swollen. It appeared as if I had sunburn.

– Linda Pietk

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Some neighbors haven't come back. It's too painful for them to return. Many innocent people, women and children, were killed.

– Jesus Alebio Portillo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's painful in the moment sometimes, people are not used to those things.

– Ray Dalio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This monument represents our history — a painful part of our nation’s history for many — and it’s best moved to a new location.

– Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is likely a combination of known negatives that are driving the increased cost focus from Boeing, in some ways it is easier for management to point to external pressures, i.e. Airbus, when justifying painful belt tightening.

– Rob Stallard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's very painful that so many people's (lives) were destroyed, that such a beautiful, new town was abandoned. It's hard on the soul.

– Elena Kupriyanova

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s not quite as painful, there’s not quite the injustice.

– Connie Gruber

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What I want most to tell people is, 'Don't underestimate your abilities. There are things you cannot do but there are lots of things you can do, so do not despair, the most painful thing is when someone says 'I am pitiable'. I am not pitiable. There are inconveniences, but I am not unhappy.

– Masahiko Sato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The most painful thing is when someone says 'I am pitiable'. I am not pitiable. There are inconveniences, but I am not unhappy.

– Masahiko Sato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Look those are the rules, but the expectations people have of democracy are very different now, in the age of the internet which is a kind of very flat structure. Everyone's a precious snowflake, you know. The idea that your vote doesn't matter, I think that's a much more painful and hard to reconcile idea than it would have been even thirty years ago.

– Tucker Carlson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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