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Troubling Quotes (page 13)

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. Anne Tyler
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. Daphne du Maurier
Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them ... but you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy. Aldous Huxley
They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain quote: "The average man don't like trouble and danger."
The average man don't like trouble and danger. Mark Twain
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H. L. Mencken
Jeff Cooper quote: "There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix. With seven..."
There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix. With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six. Jeff Cooper
Mark Twain quote: "The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a..."
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for. Mark Twain
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba… Hunter S. Thompson
Carl Jung quote: "Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of..."
Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Carl Jung
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all. Kurt Vonnegut
Leo Tolstoy quote: "was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her."
was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her. Leo Tolstoy
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault."You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons. Norton Juster
Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours. Colleen McCullough

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