Troublesome Quotes

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Saint, Be Kind, Serving Others

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Truth Is

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Government

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• To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

  James Bryce

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

  Studies in History and Jurisprudence "Obedience" (1901)

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• Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Assignments, Being A Lady

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• Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Thinking, Trouble, Advantage

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Political, Religion, Principles

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Path, Resistance, Ruts

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

  Laurence Sterne

  Religion, Literature, Companion

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.595

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• Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will Curse you.

  Emmet Fox

  Bless, Curse

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• 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.

  Richard Steele

  Lying, Men, Needs

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.103

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• A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Age, Youth, Desirable

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• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

  Dave Eggers

  Eye, Looks, Youth

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.116, Vintage

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• All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Future, Vision, Amendments

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• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Garden, Eden

  W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Hate, Simplicity, Way

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• It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Half, Quarters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they assigned that Jesus almost certainly was not born of a virgin, did not think of himself as the Son of God, and did not see his purpose as dying for the sins of the world. .. I also found the claim that Jesus and Christianity were the only way of salvation to be troublesome.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Jesus, Reading

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• I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

  Elif Safak

  Opposites, Two, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Pain, Heart

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• You are strangely troublesome.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3260, Oxford University Press

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Travel, Strong

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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