Trouble Quotes - page 72

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime. View quote
Phil Collins
The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life. View quote
Gary Zukav
You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble. View quote
George Carlin
Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble. View quote
Ron Paul
It's a game. What you read is not what's happening. The whole planet is in trouble for the same reason. View quote
Vangelis
That night I knew the world was headed for trouble. View quote
Leó Szilárd
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. View quote
Chinua Achebe
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. View quote
Chinua Achebe
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. (Cicero)
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm. View quote
François Hollande
I too have a growing inner certainty that there is a deposit of pure gold in me which ought to be passed on. The trouble is that I am more and more convinced by my experience and observation of my contemporaries that there is no one to receive it. It's a dense mass. What gets added to it is of a piece with the rest. As the mass grows it becomes more and more dense. I can't parcel it out into little pieces. View quote
Simone Weil
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science. And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it. View quote
Simone Weil
Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending. View quote
Mike Huckabee
One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. View quote
Jet Li
Accessibility on the part of rulers ends by inspiring love rather than respect, and love evaporates at first sign of trouble. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
God is all love, and the more we are like Him the more we shall love; the trouble is not in the quantity but the quality of our love. If it were wholly pure, wholly unselfish, it could not be too deep or intense; for all true loving lifts us to a higher plane, bringing us nearer to God and the eternal goodness. View quote
Arthur Kenney
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The trouble with most entrepreneurs is that they would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. View quote
Jay Samit
See, they return ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back. View quote
Ezra Pound
The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers. View quote
Jack Terricloth