“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.” LittlesSaidI CanTogetherGirlFoundCausesWifeTroubleSubjectsRelationProphetSuspicionDisruptionPolygamyParishApostasy Author:Benjamin F. Johnson
“The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.” ThinkingProcessTroubleSubjectsJudgmentLaborConclusionPersistRectify Book:Works Source: Works
“Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.” IfsThinkingMenArtFactsLawPoliticalSituationHappenedTroubleSubjectsSeriousElectionMedicineAstronomyAwfulInstructionQualifiedElection DayBotanySerious Subjects Author:Hugh Price Hughes
“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.” ChildrenCountryHelpingPainLife IsSufferingHouseCitiesWifeTroubleSubjectsLike YouNeighborTrialsStationsHouseholdSuffering And PainCity And Country Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat
“Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.” LooksEyeRememberVirtueTroubleSubjectsModelsConsequenceMirrorsPatternsVicesExposedVice And Virtue Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
“Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.” MenBookDoneTurnsMy OwnViewsTroubleSubjectsTragedyLeavingFew WordsPerseus Author:Theresa Villiers
“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.” PeopleDifferencesPayCompanyTroubleSubjectsFundGetting OldGetting OlderDemographicsInsurance CompaniesPrivate Insurance Author:Milton Friedman
“If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.” IfsPersonsEndsTroubleGroupsSubjectsPlantExtraordinaryFinishingExhibitions Author:Edward Steichen