Troubled Quotes

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness, Mind, Body

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
Jesus Christ

Trust, God, Hearts

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving

Nature, Good, Mind

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Thought, Put, Far

Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
Paul Ryan

Him, Before, Serious

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

Control, Everyone, Means

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death, May, After

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
LL Cool J

Hard, Win, Trying

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

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Small, Succeed

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum

Peace, Others, Moral

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

Sympathy, Past, Deep

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith, Doubt, Thought

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

Life, Work, Become

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton

Life, Great, Human

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
Roy L. Smith

Obscure, Plain, Scripture

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.
Miriam Makeba

Confusion, Keep, Natural

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
Pythagoras

Good, Done, Act

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
Dennis Prager

Greatest, Evil, Humanity

I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
Chloe Sevigny

Brother, Both, Yes

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Andrew Greeley

Learning, Bad, Woman

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon

Good, Great, Nice

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
Mia Wasikowska

Empathy, Characters, Although

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe

Trouble, Doubled

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
Mark Zandi

Government, Learning, Crisis

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but to make it happen soon we need to speed the resolution of millions of troubled home loans. Six years have passed since the crisis began, yet instead of accelerating, foreclosures have slowed.
Mark Zandi

Time, Home, Crisis

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
Robert Carlyle

Money, Last, Times

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.
David Schwimmer

Romantic, Two, Dark

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

War, Law, Wrong

I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of those characters have been troubled, tortured people. It's been a great way to navigate my adolescence by having these more troubled kids as an outlet.
Ezra Miller

Time, Great, True

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