National Troubles Quotes

#1. The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Elizabeth Scott

#2. About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

Arthur Baer

#3. It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

John Flavel

#4. Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. I always comb my hair before i went to sleep at night. Why? Because if i don't wake up in the next day, at least i look good

Acha Salim

#6. Funny how the darkness smelled the same everywhere. She could have been anywhere in the universe, anywhere at all.

Anne Corlett

#7. We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?

G.K. Chesterton

#8. The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

John Piper

#9. Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Harry Truman

#10. Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

Invader

#11. What made him most anxious, he told me, was not the big questions - the mercilessness of fate, the possibility of heaven. He was too exhausted, he said, to wrestle with those. But he'd become impatient with the way people wasted their lives, squandered their chances like paychecks.

Wally Lamb

#12. Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#13. There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Richard Paul Evans

#14. The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Luciano Berio

#15. You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't. - Malcador

Chris Wraight

#16. Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.

Julia Child

#17. Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Leon Krier