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Quotes About Troubles

The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
~ Joey Adams
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.
~ Nixon Waterman
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children's circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has set its maggot on their track. Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe. What's never known is safest in this life. Under the skysigns they have no arms Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.
~ Dylan Thomas
This was 'oliday, London with Maurice, all troubles over, and he wanted to drowse and waste time, and tease and make love.
~ E.M. Forster
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
~ Edith Wharton
I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.
~ Edmund Gosse
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
~ Edward Everett Hale
insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, there would end, for good and all, the troubles born of Black Michael's daring conspiracy.
~ Anthony Hope
There were only worries. She could think of nothing else.
~ Anthony Horowitz
So many of our troubles flow from a defective use of the intelligence or will or energy we have, that we are in danger of thinking that all our troubles could be cured by a better use of our own powers—
~ Frank Sheed
From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.
~ Chris Pine
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
~ Mike Murdock
troubles aren't worth the paper they're written on, but that doesn't mean writing them down won't help you get a fix on 'em.
~ Robyn Carr
All our troubles, if we carefully seek out their source, derive in some way from not knowing how to make a proper use of time," says Dante in his Convivio.
~ Rod Dreher
This visualisation take the client on a journey. The story is about the troubles in life and how we respond to them. Clients have choices during the visualisation so they are able to make their own story. The mountain climb gives clients a chance to reflect on their life so far and to acknowledge and celebrate successes along the way.
~ Roger Day
The idea that a professional tracker like Idriss could suddenly start suffering from a sort of poetic remorse, soulfulness, regret at the memory of the animals he had tracked down— such an idea could only come to birth in decadent brains and exquisite sensitivities freshly arrived from Europe — which were the beginning of all our troubles in Africa and elsewhere, be it said in passing.
~ Romain Gary
But Sade behaved exactly as if he could not tolerate the possibility that his troubles might be over. He launched immediately into a new bout of provocative debauchery.
~ Ronald Hayman
Lots of people drink when they are feeling down because they think it will chase their troubles away. That's inhibition-thinking: alcohol will unlock my good mood. But that's plainly not what happens. Sometimes alcohol cheers us up. But at other times, when an anxious person drinks they just get more anxious. Myopia theory has an answer to that puzzle: it depends on what the anxious, drunk person is doing.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.
~ Malcolm X
As the questions grow harder and more complicated, people yearn for simpler answers, one-sentence answers, answers that point unhesitatingly to a culprit who can be blamed for all our suffering, answers that promise that if we only eradicate the villains, all our troubles will vanish.
~ Amos Oz
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...Hope sweetens the memory of experiences well loved. It tempers our troubles to our growth and our strength. It befriends us in the dark hours, excites us in bright ones. It lends promise to the future and purpose to the past. It turns discouragement to determination. Samuel Smiles
~ Samuel Smiles
Money solves nothing but it eases everything.
~ Santa Montefiore