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  • The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change. -- William J. Clinton
  • Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices. -- Bill Maher
  • If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? -- Robert Browning
  • Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. -- William Shakespeare
  • You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger. -- Bob Dylan
  • I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility. -- Anthony the Great
  • Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree. -- Gertrude Stein
  • Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life. -- William Blake
  • The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting. -- Ebenezer Erskine
  • Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption. -- N. T. Wright
  • Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. -- Edith Stein
  • And we are beginning to hear the groaning from our tortured planet. We are at a point when we must realize that if we want to continue to call this planet our home, we need to change - not the planet, but ourselves. -- Masaru Emoto
  • I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering. -- Gregory Beale
  • A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul. -- Charles Grandison Finney
  • I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims. -- Thaddeus Stevens
  • Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee! -- J. Christopher Stevens
  • They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding. -- Doug Stanhope
  • You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning. -- Rob Bell
  • In our house, all you hear is groaning. -- James Ensor
  • It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge. -- William Shakespeare
  • If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning. -- John Milton
  • The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. -- Victor Hugo
  • ... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then. -- George Eliot
  • Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his wonder bread at him. -- Rick Riordan
  • The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains. -- Valerie Cruz
  • But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!" -- Travis Morrison
  • When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it. -- Jim Norton
  • The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance. -- Mary McCarthy
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