“To say my day was not going well, would be like saying the French Revolution had been a bit troublesome for Marie… — Nichole Chase Copy Share Image
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Mental strength is extremely important. We must be able to put troublesome people out of our minds. They should not be able… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun… — Janet Robertson Copy Share Image
I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome. — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. — Faye Dunaway Copy Share Image
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore Copy Share Image
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was… — John Sutter Copy Share Image
