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Troubling Quotes (page 8)

Bram Stoker quote: "No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the..."
No one but a women can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart..."~Quincey Morris Bram Stoker
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether..."
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Henry David Thoreau
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. J. G. Ballard
I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. Doris Day
Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble. Peter Scott
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. William Howard Taft
There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever ismore than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or Icould not live. H. G. Wells
In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The... Marge Piercy
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People..."
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. Kurt Vonnegut
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the silent candle burning. Now you are no longer caughtin the obsession with darkness, and a desire for higher love-makingsweeps you upward. Distance does not make you falter. Now, arriving in magic, flying, and... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry;..."
I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. Stephenie Meyer
H. Rider Haggard quote: "...for women bring trouble as surely as night follows day..."
...for women bring trouble as surely as night follows day... H. Rider Haggard
Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already. Jack Kerouac

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