Agonizing Quotes

Without a doubt, the basketball scandal (of 2003 under then-head coach Dave Bliss) was the most trying time. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It was agonizing, and the most agonizing part was the effect it had on the families. - Larry Brumley

While so many children are agonizing through this tragedy, ... those who suffered through the nightmare in the Superdome draw strongly on our compassion. - Dave Phillips

When we finally decide on who our president is, and on the day when we realize the economy is so weak that that new president must cut taxes, and he can't do it because of a divided congress and all the animosity that comes out of this agonizingly long presidential election, the dollar's going to be in trouble. - David Jones

When they got two more runs to put us down six, I think we got down a little bit. The next thing you know, it was a slow and agonizing death. - Walt Patynski

We have been beaten and had agonizing losses and we've lost games every way imaginable for way too long to get overconfident. We knew we couldn't dig a hole like last year. You know where that's going to get you, in any sport. So to come out clean and efficient is obviously a step in the right direction. - Clint Hurdle

This film for sure will get an Oscar nomination for Paltrow. It might even win it for her again. This is a very intensely dramatic film. It's a really agonizing role. - Kenneth Turan

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. - William Henry

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be. - Agnes De Mille

The Norse held values that would not allow them to deal with... pagans and certainly would not let them eat fish and hunt ringed seals the way these pagans did. So here is a case where the values that sustained them for 450 years ultimately killed them. The United States faces similar agonizing reappraisals today. - Jared Diamond