Troublesome Quotes
128 quotes by 108 authors
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While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for…
— Stephen Nathanson
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Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome…
— Twyla Tharp
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It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority.…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that…
— Learned Hand
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You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far…
— Jubal Early
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Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All immigrants bring exotic…
— Daniel Pipes
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All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.
— Daniel Pipes
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as…
— Vernon Howard
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An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
— Thomas Overbury
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
— Thomas Jefferson
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But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in…
— George Eliot
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Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are…
— Benjamin Franklin
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the…
— Gabrielle Reece
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Mental strength is extremely important. We must be able to put troublesome people out of our minds. They should not be able to distract our…
— Phil Pringle
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I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the…
— Bob Benson
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When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Who Wrote These Troublesome Quotes
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