#trouble

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. ↗

— Virgil

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I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor. ↗

— Aida Turturro

#bad girl #dysfunctional #girl #her #i

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ↗

— Voltaire

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The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

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When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble. ↗

— Frank Yerby

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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work. ↗

— Peter Davison

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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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