#troubled

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#become #concerned #gonna #life #people

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#am #another #covert #i #i am

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#general #people #poorer #troubled

Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. ↗

— Terri Windling

#charles-de-lint #childhood #power-of-stories #reading #save-lives

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#herself #language #she #show #soul

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#trouble #troubled #your

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#benefit #consequence #deep #differently #done

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#better #challenges #command #control #crises

We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#because #care #elected #had #health

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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