#troubles

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#anyway #causes #even #fundamental #greed

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. ↗

— Plato

#call #come #end #hands #humanity

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#bear #harder #imaginary #ones #queer

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american people #continue #current #earth #face

And before I'd got to the end of the first paragraph, I'd come up slap bang against a fundamental problem that still troubles me today whenever I begin a story, and it's this: where am I telling it from? ↗

— Philip Pullman

#am #bang #before #begin #come

On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#approach #basis #eating #go #how

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#dare #face #get #how #know

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#bankrupt #borrowing #interest #let us #our

When trouble ends even troubles please. ↗