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A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning. (Quote by - Julie Burchill)

Far as distress the soul can wound 'Tis pain in each degree; Bliss goes but to a certain bound, Beyond is agony. (Quote by - Frances Greville)

Acting is happy agony. (Quote by - Alec Guinness)

Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. (Quote by - Bible)

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. (Quote by - Everett Dirksen)

I am sorry I had to come off. I had a sore hip - it was agony, ... I could not stand up so I had to come off. I would really have loved to have played on. I thought I was going to get a hat-trick but I enjoyed the other goals. (Quote by - Kenny Miller)

Organize, don't agonize. (Quote by - Nancy Pelosi)

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. (Quote by - John L. Lewis)

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. (Quote by - George Eliot)

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)

Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently (Quote by - Spike Milligan)

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. (Quote by - Louise Bogan)

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. (Quote by - Buddha)

Sisters - they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. (Quote by - Roxanne Brown)

We're in constant agony that our son is gone. (Quote by - Penny Sweet)

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over. (Quote by - Frank Keating)

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. (Quote by - Ella R. Bloor)

He was screaming in agony, and there was nothing we could do. (Quote by - Joseph Jackson)

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do. (Quote by - Leon Uris)

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