A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first. — Bette Lord Copy Share Image
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport.… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
The urge to break with a tradition is only appropriate when you're dealing with an outdated, troublesome tradition: I never really thought… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole… — Giovanni Battista Morgagni Copy Share Image
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Well,” he said. “The troublesome two.” “Troublesome to whom?” asked Andrew. “Us at the Yard. Though I’ll admit you’ve given a certain… — Robert Newman Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
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