#trouble

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convenient #creatures #down #follow #messy

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#double #half #his #man #troubles

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#apple #eating #got #into #never

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#better #better thing #far #firm #nonsense

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. ↗

— James Lipton

#any #anybody #because #came #case

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening. ↗

— Titus Livius

#come #more #only #seem #serious

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from. ↗

— David Lloyd

#escape #escaping #means #more #our

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock! ↗

— Andrew Lo

#black #companies #creating #entire #explain

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#had #i #lot #more #than