Trouble Quotes - Page 17

• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

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• The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Knowledge, Media

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• I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Talking, Way, Communicate

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• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Roger Wicker

  Turkeys, Iraq, Allies

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• The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

  Simon Jenkins

  Sacrifice, Government, Wind

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• The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

  H. G. Wells

  America, Mind, Influence

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• And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Ignorance, People, World

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• God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

  Susan Vreeland

  Spiritual, Loving Life, Debt

  Susan Vreeland (2011). “Clara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel”, p.89, Random House

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• Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Blessed, Soul

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Your grandmother used to say that you were two souls separated in heaven. She mainly meant you were both trouble and deserved each other.

  Kristen Ashley

  Grandmother, Two, Heaven

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.172, Rock Chick LLC

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• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  Alexander Masters

  Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said

  Isobelle Carmody

  Brother, Responsibility, Order

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• The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

  Bum Phillips

  Sports, Assumption, Turds

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• I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

  Sheridan Smith

  People, Rescue

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.

  Martin Amis

  Twists, Looks, Fluidity

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Aug 19, 2011

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• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

  Chinua Achebe

  Failure Of Leadership, Nigeria

  Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, Heinemann

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• A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Favors, May

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.90, Anchor

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• I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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• The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Breathing, Tasks

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• I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.

  Lionel Messi

  Trying, Argentina, Want

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• Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Roots, Inward

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.648

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• The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Years, Religion

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• My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Sports, Husband

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