Trouble Quotes - Page 36

• People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

  John Mortimer

  Divorce, Thinking, People

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, January 16, 2009.

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• I like to be on TV when interviewers are good. I like it especially when it's live. When they can cut things, I don't like it as much. Sometimes they cut something and say, "Well, you would get in trouble, you would get a lawsuit." I tell them, "Well, I don't want my lawyers to be unemployed."

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cutting, Want, Tvs

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Of troubles know I none, Of pleasures know I many - I rove beneath the sun, Without a single penny.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Pennies, Pleasure, Knows

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Vagrant Songs, II)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mean, Risk, Pearls

  1888 From a letter to his brother Theo, early Oct.

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• Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

  Julia Child

  Differences, Too Much, Good Food

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.30, Knopf

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• A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.

  Evan Esar

  Cards, Credit, Counting

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• The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

  Evan Esar

  Pounds, Dieting, Weight

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• The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.

  Evan Esar

  Differences, People, Looks

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• We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

  Giacomo Casanova

  Victory, Fool, Deceiving

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Giacomo Casanova, 2001.

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• The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

  Jim Cymbala

  Praying, Instinct, Persecuted

  Twitter post from May 06, 2014

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• Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Peace

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

  N.D. Wilson

  Knowing, Littles, Frenchmen

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, May, Egotism

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• Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Stars, War, Long

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

  Charles Kettering

  Real, Learning, Power

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.

  Lee Iacocca

  Pain, Believe, White

  "Lee Iacocca On Chrysler's Bankruptcy" by Julie Halpert, www.newsweek.com. April 29, 2009.

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• When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

  Charles Wagner

  Eye, Men, Sight

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

  Livy

  Serious, Threatening, Seems

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 39,

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• Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, Medicine, Doctors

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

  C. Wright Mills

  Giving Up, Ethos, Issues

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Flesh, Bones

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Disappointment, Regret, Heart

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Genius, Done

  "Jean Renoir: Raymond Durgnat". Book by Raymond Durgnat, p.370, 1974.

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• Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Light, Doors, Studios

  "Renoir: His Life and Work". Book by François Fosca, p. 176, 1975.

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