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Quotes About Troubled

She started the fire. That was the story the press ran with, without coming right out and saying the words. Three promising young men, one troubled young woman. A party that spun out of control. Everything, engulfed in flames. Kaylie was the one the press blamed
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
For twenty-five years, Isaac Knapper had lived in my mind as a troubled young man who had learned violence in the projects and had simply acted out what he knew. It was a naïve story line, but it had allowed me to stay distantly sympathetic to him and his family. I felt better about myself for that, but I had no idea that I was participating in the same process that had secured his fate in the first place.
~ Amy Banks
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
~ Andrew Greeley
Those scientists in France Worried about raising the chance A guitar would prompt "Oui" To a stranger's startling plea Need not have been so troubled, Phone numbers more than doubled.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The bees of my melancholy, which had rarely troubled me since we escaped that foul man Bellingham at Valley Forge, were buzzing inside my brainpan, fast overcoming my customary caution.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Yet so much of the story so far has not been about unbelief at all, but sincere and troubled belief. When children of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the children of the Jewish Diaspora turned on the religions which had bred them, they mostly sought not to abolish God but to see him in a clearer light. ( p698)
~ Diarmaid MacCulloch
I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.
~ Christopher Walken
There are many people who, when God's hand is out against them, will say they are troubled for their sin, but the truth is, it is the affliction that troubles them rather than their sin. Their heart greatly deceives them in this very thing.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
The "symptom" theory goes as follows: An affair simply alerts us to a preexisting condition, either a troubled relationship or a troubled person.
~ Esther Perel
I am well and truly messed up.
~ Andrew Pyper
I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.
~ Brendon Urie
I was a pretty difficult teenager.
~ Dan Stevens
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
~ Clara Hughes
The girl was troubled; the girl was trouble. As all girls were troubled, as all girls were trouble.
~ Robin Wasserman
He did not sleep well.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
~ Jim Morrison
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. PSALM 43:5
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Guy left the office unashamed. He felt shaken, as though he had seen a road accident in which he was not concerned. His fingers shook but it was nerves not conscience which troubled him; he was familiar with shame; this trembling, hopeless sense of disaster was something of quite another order; something that would pass and leave no mark.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
~ Emily Dickinson
What's wrong, babe? You sound
~ Lisa Scottoline
His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
~ Lois Lowry
He laughed a little, but the laughter was not lighthearted. His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
~ Lois Lowry