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I think we're returning to the inflationary worries which is more painful for interest rate-sensitive (companies) and less an issue for technology. It's a similar rotation that began yesterday (Thursday). People are concerned about inflation.

It has been an extremely painful process both physically and emotionally since the injury on October 30th.

It is not going to be a difficult decision, even if it is obviously going to be a painful one.

It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I think we're in the middle of this painful period and we're just going to churn around for a while.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

It is a painful condition which is central to all movement so it affects his batting, bowling and running - pretty much everything.

I think there is always some hope that a case will resolve because this is painful for a lot of people to have to go through again. But, if it can't be resolved with a fair plea resolution, we have no other option except to go forth with a trial.

Just as an arrow once released from the bow can not return,in the same manner painful and harsh words can not be taken back.

I think divorce is equally painful for both men and women, but it affects women in different ways. Like marriage, divorce has a different meaning for women.

Our industry is beginning a dramatic restructuring which is sorely needed, ... The consequences will be painful to some.

Painful as that was at the time, it was really good for us.

pleased that she does not have to go through the painful and humiliating ordeal of having to testify on the floor of the Senate.

Really to me it is the most sensible way to do this as painful as it is.

Our only aim is to see the state out of the current painful and precarious situation.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Sure it's a little painful on the ears, but what's a little pain now when it can save your life later.

Statistics point to what happened in this game. We had problems finishing plays where we had the size advantage, and it was painful at the free-throw line.

My thighs are constantly aching and I've had a painful ankle for days.

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

Listen to people during intermission or leaving the theater, and you'll hear them relating their own horrific travel stories. The show captures a fun and painful time that is universal. Sadly, today this classic kids-in-the-station-wagon sort of vacation is becoming a thing of the past.

I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that's what I'll tell my son when he's old enough to torture me with painful questions.

It has been a disappointing and painful way for Troy to end his career.

I think he's a wannabe. He's ready to sacrifice his life at this point and become a martyr. In many ways, it would be more painful for him to just remain in prison and be forgotten.

It is downright dishonest to tell taxpayers that there will be deep, painful and meaningful cuts in spending and then deliver a budget that balloons state spending by almost $3 billion.

Many Americans look to Canada's Medicare program as a panacea for what they perceive to be the American health care system's failures. These wonderful visions of Canada's socialized health program tend to ignore the very real costs that system imposes on Canadians in need of medically necessary care: long wait times that can stretch into months or even years of painful and detrimental delay. The reality is that Canada's Medicare program is a model for no one, not even Canada.

Malcolm in the Middle ... I always knew I would need this done because shallow hips run in the family. It was painful and took months to get back on my feet. I dread doing the other hip.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

The army will stand cocked and ready to inflict a painful blow, if necessary, against anyone who tries to harm us,

That's the most painful triple I ever had to earn. It still hurts.

I was really happy. But it's almost painful to be so close.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

My career could have ended on a play that I went out on the field arrogant, I did some things I never should do. I learned a valuable lesson in that. If you go out there with a sense of arrogance and you haven't accomplished anything, you set yourself up for failure. Looking at that and looking at her miscue, it brought back some painful memories for me.

While eliminating jobs is a painful process -- both personally and culturally -- it is necessary to make these changes to refocus and realign with our restaurants and, where appropriate, bring home office resources closer to them,

While any decline is encouraging, we remain concerned because too many people continue to act out their anti-Jewish hatred. We have always said that America is different, that the Jewish communities here are fortunate to be largely immune from the kind of anti-Semitic violence experienced by some European Jewish communities. The numbers remain sobering because we know from painful experience that it only takes one incident of anti-Semitism to affect an entire community.

We are thrilled to be expanding Camp Erin into the Boise and Sun Valley communities. Camp Erin is such a gift to the children, and makes an incredible difference in their lives by providing hope and comfort during the painful grieving process. We are also very excited about our unique Dream Catchers auction in February.

We came in with painful hearts, but when we heard the crowd, the heart started beating again.

We have a great opportunity to move beyond the past and learn the lessons of that painful history,

We've learned a painful lesson here today. That is if you lose focus on the defensive end of the floor, teams can catch you, particularly a team that was as cold shooting as we were.

We have changed the transparency of county government. We're very open in the decisions we make. Sometimes it's painful to air disputes, but I think it's very necessary to have an open government.

We are now well past the point in which one or two hit products can correct the overcapacity we have or justify the staffing levels we maintain -- even with the significant actions we've taken during the past couple of years. Sadly, this isn't just a Ford issue. It's an issue for our domestic competitors as well. As hard and painful as it is to idle plants and reduce our work force, we know these sacrifices are critical to set the stage for a stronger future.

We are determined to cooperate with the Iraqi government, ... We are determined to help whatever we can help so that the suffering of the Iraqi people, which is painful for us, could be stopped. And this is a major task that my government is undertaking all the time.

We recognize it's painful and devastating to our members, and couldn't come at a more worse time, however we do not want our future in the hands of the bankruptcy court.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

The question is not whether the U.S. current account deficit will fall in the future but whether the inevitable adjustment is likely to be painful and disruptive of U.S. economic growth and stability -- a hard landing.

The property values were up last year, but not the painful way they are this year.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

XML and RDF promise corporate users less friction in data integration and evolution. Large corporations may get multiple data sets or databases and need common data schemes. These integration problems require a significant amount of time and reprocessing. They can make for a pretty painful data fusion process. XML and RDF reduce the time it takes...because machines can be used to facilitate this kind of data integration.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

The death of spectators is extremely painful and in those areas where a lot of work has been done to cut out the risks. Accidents on the course are different. The people sum up the dangers. They are (voluntarily) involved in a sport full of risks and therefore they know the risks they are taking.

What we try to do is make the process the least painful as we can. Its got to be devastating when you find out your job is gone.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

We're all gonna lie, we're all gonna cry, and we're all gonna take painful shits.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.

We learned a painful lesson here today. If you lose focus on the defensive end of the floor, teams can get you. They only had eight steals but all eight of them led to shots we couldn't defend.

When James disappeared I had to disappear too, and that was a very painful thing in my life. Painful because gay and lesbian people know that not being seen is very hard.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

We have been able to objectively stand back and measure activity in the pre-term infant brain in response to a noxious or painful stimulus. That's never been done before. Anyone working with pre-term babies would feel intuitively that they're likely to feel pain - but before now we didn't know.

There has been and continues to be a kind of painful process in converting from all these different, multiple databases to a single one, but it's going to be so worth it to have all that information up to date and accessible to everybody. The ultimate goal is 40,800 seats full -- and we want to keep people in the seats. We don't want a sold-out ballpark with bunches of empty seats.

With a lot of programs today, you're not only saying what you want the program to do, you are saying in painful detail how you want it done. The way we get to take advantage of all of the progress in CPUs and memory is offloading some of that 'how to' to the infrastructure.

This will be painful for marketers in the beginning, but it is a positive step in forcing them to be more selective in who they e-mail. Many now just blast e-mail rather than target an audience.

The past few days have been painful for everyone involved. But that is nothing compared to any offense that may have been caused to disabled people in our community and in our country.

The play has taken on a greater height of spirituality. He didn't make it. That was a painful thing, but it feels absolutely right that we are here. His family is here. His people are here.

The President's visit, at least to some extent, marks the transition from a 40-or-so-year painful bilateral history to the transformed relationship the two countries have today.

We've got to get off oil. And it's possible. It'll take a dramatic shift in the way we think and how our infrastructure works, but we as Americans have proven time and again that we can tackle change head on. Yeah, it's a challenge, but it doesn't have to be a painful one. We just have to recalibrate our thinking on the subject.

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing that the sooner we act, the less painful the choices will be.

We see it day in, day out around here. There is no agenda, there are no solutions to problems, there's no trying to get our fiscal house in order. Whatever it is, whatever the issue is, it just keeps snapping back. This, I understand, was particularly painful - talking about shrinking this government and doing ... less with more,

While the record drop in the top level index spells welcome relief from the painful post-hurricane energy price spikes in September, continued pressure on the core index over the next several months will keep the Federal Reserve vigilant on the inflation watch.

We all had a common ground on the point, ... the idea that you don't always get it right the first time, especially in terms of love... I know I'd just come back from my honeymoon with (CMA Song of the Year winner) Matraca (Berg), and Marcus and I got to talking about how life doesn't always turn out the way you think it's going to. So, when you finally do get it right, you look back on those experiences that were painful and you realize it was part of your journey.

We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.

This whole episode has been embarrassing and painful to us as a company and as individuals.

This technology is far less capital-intensive than old industrial technology, and therefore may enable poor countries to leapfrog some of the long and painful stages of development that others had to go through,

This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil rights and our right to privacy when it counts the most.

We cannot excuse that kind of misconduct because we happen to belong to the same party as the president or agree with him on issues or feel tragically that the removal of the president from office would be enormously painful for the United States of America.

Twenty-three months ago, our nation was thrown into turmoil because we learned a painful reality -- that our democracy did not work as well as it should. ... The legislation we present to the Congress today rectifies those wrongs, does justice to the American voter.

T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.

You have applications like Opera so users can view the real Web, but sometimes the experience is still painful and slow.

What was not on the national radar screen has exploded onto television screens, ... We know now that the faces of poverty are black and brown, painful and anguished. Let this nation rise up to eliminate poverty and the faces of poverty vanish from the American scene.

What's unique about MDMA is that it's actually stimulating but decreases anxiety, ... It could help people feel calm and comfortable enough to explore painful things that are hard to talk about.

We impose on ourselves a policy of self-restraint in order to try and end this 10-month stretch of violence that is leading both sides to nowhere, ... Therefore there is a possibility to make a decision here ... to go to the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. I can tell you we are willing to make painful compromises for that.

You get these debates in local communities and it is part of the wider debate - about how Maori and other people are going to articulate with each other in New Zealand and that can be a painful interface,

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.