That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain..

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyon….

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it..

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!.

Dont let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally..

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. ….

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for tha….

Doesn't that hurt?" I said. "Yep." "How do you keep them in there?" "I'm stubborn." You grinned. "Stubborn as a waddywood. And anyway, pain means it'….

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfec….

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes ….

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion..

Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us ne….

We were all Romans once, I guess..

Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the ….

When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay….

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead..

God has made us humans in God's own image. So therefore the highest way to talk about God is by some kind of analogy with ourselves. So, naturally, i….

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; f….

Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. ….

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow,….