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Quotes About Troublesome

This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makes us feel very nationalistic, and so many people would be on vacation in foreign places.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.
~ Pseudonymous Bosch
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
~ Greg Bear
the city that had served as the religious, economic, and political capital of the Jewish nation for a thousand years, was, by the time Pompey strode through its gates, recognized less for its beauty and grandeur than for the religious fervor of its troublesome population.
~ Reza Aslan
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
~ Vance Havner
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
~ Jane Austen
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction to everything that is proposed or done; and although, from want of power, you may not be able to exercise tyranny, yet, by the help of perpetual mutiny, you may heavily torment and vex all there that love you; and be as troublesome as an impertinent fly, to those who care not three farthings about you.
~ Jane Collier
Our potential adversaries are watching us, and they have seen what has happened to us... This is why we're dealing with a very problematical and troublesome Putin, and we're dealing with Iran in a very terrible agreement we had.
~ Chris Gibson
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
~ William Penn
The jealous are troublesome to others, but torment to themselves.
~ William Penn
the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!
~ Ali Vali
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
~ Laurence Sterne
She was simply a rotten kid.
~ Deborah Spungen
Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.
~ Tom Felton
For the first time in her life, she didn't look like royalty. She looked fierce, edgy, and troublesome. A merl not to be messed with. And she liked it.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
~ Kapil Dev
fractious, four-legged children of Satan
~ Rick Atkinson
During the years we were together we fought the strangest villains of all time...villains like the Firebug and Young Nastyman...don't say a word...and the most troublesome of the lot, the freakish dwarf genius called Doctor Gargunza...
~ Alan Moore
You want to know what's even more troublesome?" I scooted up. "Our real names rhyme." He chuckled. "Yeah, they do. I never thought of that.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven