Troublous Times Quotes

#1. Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

Aristophanes

#3. Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.

J.C. Ryle

#4. One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all along: However much you love them, your own children are only ever on loan.

David Mitchell

#5. You can if you think you can

Ivan Johnston

#6. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese

#7. It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

David Weber

#8. Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Iain Banks

#9. Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Socrates

#10. The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence ... in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

Piero Ferrucci

#11. It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time ... when I knew words would be my life's work

Margaret Edson

#12. Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Simon Helberg

#13. Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Vance Havner

#14. Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.

James Bernard Frost

#15. Every new day, I reach out to the best of myself by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being.

Maria Canals Barrera

#17. The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome - this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

Victor Hugo

#18. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.

Sofia Grey