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It was very painful and I didn't enjoy it. – Rachel Ashe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Electricity is not only kind of a lower-cost solution here, but is also more immune to these shorter-term volatility events, which, just on the level of a consumer homeowner, that's painful, people are already feeling the effects of inflation. And then this short-term volatility where gas prices are up and natural gas prices are up. It's painful, and it really hurts people's pocketbooks. – Sam Calisch	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Helpful inner monologue isn't always positive in the sense that sometimes, in working through the bad stuff, we learn from our mistakes, that sometimes involves revisiting painful experiences, extracting some important insight that helps us move on and improve. – Ethan Kross	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have recovered so many fragments over the last two days. They are very painful for those who pick them up and then for those who have to analyze them, personally I can only think that what we found on the surface will be the same that we will find underneath, when the ice will melt or by digging, if there is a chance. – Maurizio Dellantonio	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The constitutional right of American women to have their own decision on abortion ends today. This change is painful for those women who have unintended pregnancy, many will face a hard life. And this change happens in the US that advocates human rights vigorously. Pathetic. – Benjamin Weinthal	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Russian media widely commented on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade, zeroing in on President Biden’s criticism of the decision and on the protests sweeping across America after the Supreme Court’s ruling, russian Gazette [Rossiyskaya Gazeta], the Kremlin’s official newspaper, emphasized that President Joe Biden disagreed with the decision, translating his quote characterizing the decision as painful and destructive for many Americans. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit. – unknown	added by unochickie 1 year ago
We’re putting our athletes through a lot of painful literal and figurative hoops and hurdles with really no resolution at the end of it to tell them that this is the standard that is being set for competition, there needs to be a joint effort to determine the metric because athletics and institutions, they go off of metrics and standards that can be applied to the masses. – Shaun Fletcher	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Not at all, kathleen Buhle was struggling under a massive drug addiction and that's heartbreaking and painful. – Kathleen Buhle	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s obviously really painful and difficult news, seeing the police officer read out that information in court was the first we’d heard of it... It just confirms the cover-up. I think there is no denying that this was a police cover-up anymore. – Rick Kuhnla Jr.	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think everybody exhaled, took a deep breath, for the last 14 (games), they've come every day expecting to win ... and when you come in after the game, you see the pain on their faces. I know it's hurting them, and that means a heck of a lot, because they care. These last two weeks were painful for them. Painful for everybody, but when you see that care in your players, that means a lot. – Phil Nevin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It is so horrific. It is so painful to find out, my daughter Alyssa, who was only 14 years old, shot eight times in her English classroom. It's a parent's worst nightmare. – Lori Alhadeff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's incredibly painful for people and every time it's somewhere new it is a new jolt. – Adam Massey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The process of getting inflation down to 2 % will also include some pain, but ultimately the most painful thing would be if we were to fail to deal with it and inflation were to get entrenched in the economy at high levels, and we know what that's like. – Jerome Powell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If we still had harsh restrictions like in the( Chinese) mainland even after vaccination, it would be very painful and there would be no point in getting the vaccines. – Jeff Huang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not ashamed that it took me years to say it, i'm not ashamed that it was hard. I'm not ashamed that I still think about all aspects of it. I'm not ashamed that it was painful. And I'm not gon na shut up about it. – Arielle Cohen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There will not be a separate set of rules for Democrats in control of this committee. That was used as a response time and time again by those senators, and it was accepted. If what I said was somehow problematic or painful yesterday, I'm sorry, but the Democrats are going to use the same mechanism that Republicans have used on this committee. – Dick Durbin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's going to be painful to deliberate, unless it becomes possible for Western aid, both military and humanitarian, to be absorbed in Ukraine at sufficient rates that they can genuinely turn the tide against the Russian advancement, if it's a question of who can pour in the greater resources and take the greater pain in order to prevail, Russia has a track record for inflicting substantial economic damage on itself and suffering on its own population, in order to prosecute wars. – Keir Giles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Kim Kardashian is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of Kim Kardashian mother, and has to deal with that pressure and isolation that is heightened by Kim Kardashian bi-polar disorder, those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions. – Kim Kardashian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s delusional to think that ordinary people wouldn’t care much about inflation if only the media stopped discussing it. People notice when they pay more for groceries, rent, gasoline, pet food, diapers. It is painful. It is unsettling. – Chip Somodevilla/Getty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The pandemic has been a reset to how a lot of families think about family life and what matters, it's been painful, and we've lost things in it, but I think we've also gained something so important... more connection with the people that matter the most to us. – Kerry Stutzman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t know if they’ll factor into the elections, but certainly, we know, what has happened with the invasion of the Ukraine, and the sanctions of the things that we’re going to have to do are painful. – Joyce Beatty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To watch yesterday Russia invade a maternity ward and watch what happened with those babies is painful. – Joyce Beatty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I cannot even imagine how painful it is to be a Ukrainian right now, i try to sympathize and try to empathize. It’s difficult. My country is not at war, and my family is not hiding themselves in the subways of the capital of my nation. – President Andrew Parsons	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

It was very painful and I didn't enjoy it.

– Rachel Ashe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Electricity is not only kind of a lower-cost solution here, but is also more immune to these shorter-term volatility events, which, just on the level of a consumer homeowner, that's painful, people are already feeling the effects of inflation. And then this short-term volatility where gas prices are up and natural gas prices are up. It's painful, and it really hurts people's pocketbooks.

– Sam Calisch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Helpful inner monologue isn't always positive in the sense that sometimes, in working through the bad stuff, we learn from our mistakes, that sometimes involves revisiting painful experiences, extracting some important insight that helps us move on and improve.

– Ethan Kross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have recovered so many fragments over the last two days. They are very painful for those who pick them up and then for those who have to analyze them, personally I can only think that what we found on the surface will be the same that we will find underneath, when the ice will melt or by digging, if there is a chance.

– Maurizio Dellantonio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The constitutional right of American women to have their own decision on abortion ends today. This change is painful for those women who have unintended pregnancy, many will face a hard life. And this change happens in the US that advocates human rights vigorously. Pathetic.

– Benjamin Weinthal

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Russian media widely commented on the Supreme Court’s decision regarding Roe v. Wade, zeroing in on President Biden’s criticism of the decision and on the protests sweeping across America after the Supreme Court’s ruling, russian Gazette [Rossiyskaya Gazeta], the Kremlin’s official newspaper, emphasized that President Joe Biden disagreed with the decision, translating his quote characterizing the decision as painful and destructive for many Americans.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit.

– unknown

added by unochickie
1 year ago

We’re putting our athletes through a lot of painful literal and figurative hoops and hurdles with really no resolution at the end of it to tell them that this is the standard that is being set for competition, there needs to be a joint effort to determine the metric because athletics and institutions, they go off of metrics and standards that can be applied to the masses.

– Shaun Fletcher

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Not at all, kathleen Buhle was struggling under a massive drug addiction and that's heartbreaking and painful.

– Kathleen Buhle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s obviously really painful and difficult news, seeing the police officer read out that information in court was the first we’d heard of it... It just confirms the cover-up. I think there is no denying that this was a police cover-up anymore.

– Rick Kuhnla Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think everybody exhaled, took a deep breath, for the last 14 (games), they've come every day expecting to win ... and when you come in after the game, you see the pain on their faces. I know it's hurting them, and that means a heck of a lot, because they care. These last two weeks were painful for them. Painful for everybody, but when you see that care in your players, that means a lot.

– Phil Nevin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is so horrific. It is so painful to find out, my daughter Alyssa, who was only 14 years old, shot eight times in her English classroom. It's a parent's worst nightmare.

– Lori Alhadeff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's incredibly painful for people and every time it's somewhere new it is a new jolt.

– Adam Massey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The process of getting inflation down to 2 % will also include some pain, but ultimately the most painful thing would be if we were to fail to deal with it and inflation were to get entrenched in the economy at high levels, and we know what that's like.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If we still had harsh restrictions like in the( Chinese) mainland even after vaccination, it would be very painful and there would be no point in getting the vaccines.

– Jeff Huang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not ashamed that it took me years to say it, i'm not ashamed that it was hard. I'm not ashamed that I still think about all aspects of it. I'm not ashamed that it was painful. And I'm not gon na shut up about it.

– Arielle Cohen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There will not be a separate set of rules for Democrats in control of this committee. That was used as a response time and time again by those senators, and it was accepted. If what I said was somehow problematic or painful yesterday, I'm sorry, but the Democrats are going to use the same mechanism that Republicans have used on this committee.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's going to be painful to deliberate, unless it becomes possible for Western aid, both military and humanitarian, to be absorbed in Ukraine at sufficient rates that they can genuinely turn the tide against the Russian advancement, if it's a question of who can pour in the greater resources and take the greater pain in order to prevail, Russia has a track record for inflicting substantial economic damage on itself and suffering on its own population, in order to prosecute wars.

– Keir Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Kim Kardashian is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of Kim Kardashian mother, and has to deal with that pressure and isolation that is heightened by Kim Kardashian bi-polar disorder, those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.

– Kim Kardashian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s delusional to think that ordinary people wouldn’t care much about inflation if only the media stopped discussing it. People notice when they pay more for groceries, rent, gasoline, pet food, diapers. It is painful. It is unsettling.

– Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The pandemic has been a reset to how a lot of families think about family life and what matters, it's been painful, and we've lost things in it, but I think we've also gained something so important... more connection with the people that matter the most to us.

– Kerry Stutzman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t know if they’ll factor into the elections, but certainly, we know, what has happened with the invasion of the Ukraine, and the sanctions of the things that we’re going to have to do are painful.

– Joyce Beatty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To watch yesterday Russia invade a maternity ward and watch what happened with those babies is painful.

– Joyce Beatty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I cannot even imagine how painful it is to be a Ukrainian right now, i try to sympathize and try to empathize. It’s difficult. My country is not at war, and my family is not hiding themselves in the subways of the capital of my nation.

– President Andrew Parsons

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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