Trouble Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image “How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Trouble
Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's only until we confront the darkness of our past that we can responsibly move forward. — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell. — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind. — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of us here grew up with, the ritual post-immigrant struggle for success turning pathological in, of all places, the gentleman farmer's castle of our superordinary Swede (a character). A guy stacked like a deck of cards for… — Philip Roth Copy Share
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense of what is unknown with a fantasy that is mad. Better, I thought, that the events of these past three days should remain incomprehensible to me forever than to posit, as I had just been doing,… — Philip Roth Copy Share
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To… — George Friedman Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I loved Twitter. But I was going to end up saying something that would get me into trouble. I have kept a clean nose… — Micah Richards Copy Share Image
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
