Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

“Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are…

— Lemony Snicket

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and…

— Gabrielle Reece

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

— Anonymous

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what…

— Lemony Snicket

My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of things that…

— Ishmael Beah

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

— Vida Dutton Scudder

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for…

— Lionel Barber

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support…

— Amity Shlaes

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's…

— Adolph Gottlieb

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an…

— Anonymous

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's…

— Larry Elder