Troubled Quotes
393 Troubled quotes by 337 unique authors
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven…
— Jasper Fforde
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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
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A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,…
— Ronald Reagan
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This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.
— Brandon Sanderson
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A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except…
— John Dufresne
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As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".
— Mircea Eliade
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Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl…
— Garth Nix
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When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it!…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled…
— Joan Didion
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and…
— Walter Scott
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Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not…
— Bertrand Russell
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My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school…
— Rick Riordan
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What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough…
— Ted Dekker
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Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because,…
— Bill Hicks
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No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...
— Emily Bronte
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves.…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established…
— Charles Dickens
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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot…
— Arthur Golden
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Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel:…
— Lisa McMann
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