#trouble

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. ↗

#always #causes #cover-up #event #rather

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. ↗

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cause #contrary #earthly #last #longer

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. ↗

— Russell Baker

#business #discussion #financial #found #jobs

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#even #literature #must #only #proofs

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#fabulous #hard #place #play #trouble

The trouble with law is lawyers. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#law #lawyers #trouble

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#even #exactly #i #me #nobody

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. ↗