Painstakingly Quotes

#1. I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time.

Nicole Krauss

#2. In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.

Peter Sagal

#3. While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.

Jerry Falwell

#4. Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Robert Grosseteste

#5. I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

George Meyer

#6. Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office.

Margo Kingston

#7. The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.

Sandra Dodd

#8. I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. But the angrier you get the more painstakingly correct your speech becomes,

Ann Leckie

#10. To blithely discard the spent kernels of something that has ended is to discard the very resources that have painstakingly been harvested from that ending from which a spirited new beginning will be cultivated.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come.

Anonymous

#12. 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.

Gene Luen Yang

#13. Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.

Stuart J. Russell

#14. The long and painstakingly detailed discussions seemed to me nothing more than the incessant nattering of toads in a water filled ditch and of no greater consequence.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

Scott Adams

#16. When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Alanis Morissette

#17. I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film as good as possible, not on painstakingly replicating the comic.

Adrian Tomine

#18. Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Salman Rushdie

#19. The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

Mark Kurlansky

#20. Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

#21. Pray patiently.
Pray purposefully.
Pray painstakingly.
Pray perfectly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased.

Lauren Oliver

#23. He's a sculpture. Painstakingly chiseled into perfection over the course of years, until arias could be written about his eyebrows, his cheekbones, the freaking shape of his nostrils. And me? Well, I'm probably a finger-painting. Done by a three-year-old. Without supervision.

Julie Johnson

#24. Even if we painstakingly piece together something lost, it doesn't mean things will ever go back to how they were Berserk

Kentaro Miura

#25. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Nicole Krauss

#26. I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. Judi Dench is incredible. She takes acting to another level. She is a thorough professional. She is always smiling and cheerful. She painstakingly rehearses with co-stars and allows you to be natural.

Tena Desae

#28. Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.

James Luceno

#30. and together we pushed through paragraphs, painstakingly sounding out the words, knitting them into human sentences that said very little.

Miranda July

#31. He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He

Lev Grossman

#32. I look down at myself, hoping I didn't forget something painstakingly obvious like, oh, a shirt, for example. But, nope, definitely have one of those.

Cassie Graham

#33. Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Kiran Desai

#34. If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.

Henryk Skolimowski

#35. Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,

Zac Posen

#36. Autobiography is a precious broken vase pieced painstakingly together still showing the chips and cracks. It is a broken truth revealing snapshots of a cracked and chipped life pieced pieced painstakingly together.

Chloe Thurlow

#37. And so, God, in no hurry whatsoever, painstakingly chips away, removing everything that is not part of the image of Christ. He takes the initiative to interrupt our lives for the higher cost of developing us into spiritually mature believers.

A.W. Tozer

#38. Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#39. I'm hardly the first to point out that middle-class America has a parenting problem. In hundreds of books and articles this problem has been painstakingly diagnosed, critiqued, and named: overparenting, hyperparenting, helicopter parenting, and, my personal favorite, the kindergarchy.

Pamela Druckerman

#40. If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

Tim Berners-Lee

#41. A man painstakingly plans for every detail, carefully lays the foundations, picks his moments wisely and adds the right pieces with gusto only to be confronted a turn before the end of the race by a stubborn, more dead than alive, old man.

Angelo Tsanatelis

#42. Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.

Lorii Myers

#43. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.

Salman Rushdie