#troubles

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

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#always #america #democratic #despot #embrace

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#coalition #every #knows #man #married

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#concrete #full #idea #insights #like

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

Sweet is the memory of past troubles. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#past #sweet #troubles

Every age has its happiness and troubles. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#every #happiness #troubles

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#does #his #joys #likes #man

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#had #i #life #many #my life

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. ↗

— Lucretius

#any #because #delectable #free #gaze