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~ An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. ~ ~ Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead ~ ~ Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ~ ~ If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~ ~ The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ~ ~ The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~ ~ When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ~ ~ Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ~ ~ If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of troubles ~ ~ If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ~ ~ Vengeance is not the point; change is.
But the trouble is that in most [people's]
minds the thought of victory and the
thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ~ ~ I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met. . ~ ~ Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. ~ ~ As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. ~ ~ 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. ~ ~ The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ~ ~ One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering ~ ~ A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~ ~ Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ~ ~ I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men. ~ ~ Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~ ~ In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men. ~ ~ Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble. ~ ~ The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. ~ ~ We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. ~ ~ If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~ ~ All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. ~ ~ Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times. ~ ~ Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ~ ~ The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old. ~ |
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