“[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.” HeartMomentsScienceTroubleSilentNervousLoudOperationsArtificialSurgery Author:William DeVries
“If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.” IfsThinkingLooksMomentsBodyTroubleComfortableYour BodyQuestioning Author:Alanna Ubach
“Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.” IfsNeedsWellsMomentsAgeFireTroubleWineGlassesWanderEaseTravelerGood DayGrapesDrunkennessRubies Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!” IfsLoveFirstsHeartMaySoulMomentsGodEyeChristianPastJoyPurposeJesusCausesUnderstandingChristMy OwnAcceptingLordGoneTroubleAcceptanceBecomingVictoryCircumstancesSorrowBlessingRefuseChristian InspirationalLiftsTouchingTrust In GodThronesPastorTestingCommitment To GodConfidence In GodGod Within UsTouch MeGod Is In ControlGod Works In Mysterious Ways Author:Alan Redpath
“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.” NeedsMomentsFactsCultureSpeakLanguageHurtLossTroubleGainsSpeciesPoetry IsCelebrationEndangered Species Author:Erica Jong
“The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.” HumansLittlesMomentsReligionPerfectKnownTroubleLetting GoNecksCosmosDescriptionAlmightyEpiphanyAdrift Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.” IfsFirstsMomentsBigsLife IsNextAttitudeTroublePhilosopherCheerfulThe Next One Author:Ruth Gordon
“The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.” MadeHardMomentsRememberLyingFictionTroubleDetailsSpursSpur Of The Moment Book:The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel Source: The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel