“Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.” GivingTwoBornResultsTroubleWeakness Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.” FirstsHeartMeanLeftTermWaterResultsTroubleSkyRegretDifficultyDisappointmentBurningFewerSmoothPresidency Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.” MeanEndsResultsTroubleSeriousPhasesAxesFranco Author:Bill Vaughan
“Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.” PeopleResultsTroubleJokesSticksSoldierBoringSenatorsJohn KerryUneducated Author:Conan O'Brien
“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."” YearsMadeWarPastPoliticalPoliticsCausesResultsCasesTroubleStressInspiredAncientInsightPrimariesInevitableGreekRisingHistorianRulingGreeceRivalsAthensAncient GreeceSparta Author:Graham T. Allison
“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.” ThinkingKnowsProblemKidsDifferencesResultsTroubleTheoryAdultsGladObservationFakeSelectEcstatic Author:Emma Bull
“I find that you can use an acting technique when the thing isn't working, not that you make the technique the end result of your work. You use the technique when you're in trouble and things aren't flowing the way they should. It's a way of fooling yourself to make it work again.” WayShouldEndsUseResultsActingTroubleTechniqueEnd ResultsFooling Yourself Author:Richard Gere
“Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.” StillsWarEndsPainResultsTroubleDrugDoctorsPatientGenuineTreatedExpensiveTreatmentSkepticismSchedulesTestingAddictSurveillanceWar On DrugsEnd ResultsDatabasesOpioidsOften Can Author:Maia Szalavitz
“In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.” BelieveDoeEndsEnoughShowsResultsTakenTroubleStrangerSecureAdministrationDisorderEmployedZealUnimportantFormality Author:Marquis de Custine