If you have a soar throat, it may be painful to swallow. A soar throat can be caused by viruses or bacteria.

Level 4 Unit 1 Lesson 3

Headaches can be very painful and last for a long time. If you have a headache your head hurts.

A sprained ankle can be so painful that you can't walk. Someone with a sprained ankle may need to use crutches to walk.

A burn is an injury to the skin caused by fire or heat. If you get too close to a fire, you will be burned.

An earache is a sharp dull or burning pain in the ear. Common causes of earache include an affection, a changing air pressure or water in the ear.

Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Being fined for violating the rules of your league is not the same as a shop owner on Main Street paying to have a new sign hung in front of their business. One is a business expense, the other is a punishment.

People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe thats the worst sentence of all to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

I rise at 6. Strong coffee helps me face the paper edition of 'The New York Times.' It daily challenges my own capacity for faking anything deranged enough to sound true. I work till 2 P.M. unless I am in the throes of finishing something. I rewrite to be reread.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature.

You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.

I love you, you were there for me, you protected me, and most of all, you loved me. We'd fight, scream, and argue, but, under it all, is a love. That only exists, in a brother, and a sister.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.