“Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.” PeopleHappensKidsWantedClassLaughingTroubleHonestlyMaking People Laugh Author:Eric Ladin
“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanHas BeensIdeasHappensNaturalPowerfulTroubleGroupsWingsSurprisingRight WingSubordinatesSubordination Author:Gloria Steinem
“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.” MenHappensForceWaterJusticeLaughingStruggleSeeingTroubleHe ManHotWaveStrikesMidstRemedySailDistressExhaustedUnseenWrecksReefsHot Headed Author:Aeschylus
“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.” NeedsBelieveDoeIdeasPhilosophyHappensFormIndividualOpinionRightsTroubleGroupsTerribleRegardIllnessCriticalMindsetThings HappenSocialismMental IllnessAcquireFacultyBeesSocialistInsignificantTerrible ThingsUnwillingEvaluateBonnets Author:L. Neil Smith
“This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.” IfsThinkingBelieveHappensUnited StatesTroubleTerribleDisaster Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.” WayFirstsChildrenHappensGrowthLinesTroubleMamaDividing Book:A Window Over the Sink Source: A Window Over the Sink