Troublesome Quotes - Page 5

• Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Thinking, Naughty

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Engineering, Important, Problem

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kind

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  Rafael Yglesias

  Mean, Gone Away, Two

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• The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact:  Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year.  Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding.  What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population.  The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.

  Michael Pollan

  Mean, Years, Cds

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.

  Giovanni Battista Morgagni

  Death, Men, Years

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• Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Eye, Home

  Samuel Richardson (1811). “Works”, p.13

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Life, Blessing, Done

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

  Faye Dunaway

  Sometimes, Vulnerable, Desperate

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• A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

  Kate Greenaway

  Friends, Morning, Grateful

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• I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

  Mary Collyer

  Believe, Writing, Order

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.255

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• Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Masters, Duty, Regard

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• Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index”, p.317

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• The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Greed, Political, Might

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• Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

  Janet Robertson

  Children, Fun, Thinking

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• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Acceptance, Thinking, Atheism

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Faith, Thinking, Profound

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• It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

  Mark Dunn

  Trying, Toadstools, Habit

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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 the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

  Jubal Early

  Girl, Firefly, Doe

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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 pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Animal, Names

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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 customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

  Daniel Pipes

  Attitude, Hygiene, Cooking

  National Review, November 19, 1990.

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• All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

  Daniel Pipes

  Attitude, Exotic, Immigrants

  "The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!" by Daniel Pipes, www.danielpipes.org. November 19, 1990.

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