To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.
I don't hang out with people that are gonna get me in trouble.
I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous. . . our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.
Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.
You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.
I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
We see the most beautiful creations whither. The beautiful young maiden becomes the old woman and she hates her body because it isn't what it used to be. The young man becomes the old dotard who has trouble remembering.
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds. . . there's the one you give and the other you take.
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
I just never get into trouble. It's not my thing.
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.
We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.