“It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.” PeopleIfsWayShouldFirstsDreamSufferingTroubleSacrificeTruth IsBlessingSpreadWideTrialsAccompany Book:Sermons Preached on Various Occasions Source: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
“I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.” RealFeltPlayerRiskTroubleTruth IsPocketsHanging Around Author:Steve Young
“Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.” NeedsFallTakenTroubleFoodProductsTruth IsEatingInfiniteCookingConsumersEating FoodBest Food Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.” PeopleThinkingWayMindRealTroubleTruth IsMy FriendsLike MeSpeaking My Mind Author:Keith Michael
“He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.” WorldEndsActionLosesTroubleJourneyTruth IsTasksConsistentSincereSincerityWords And Actions Author:John Tillotson
“The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoeRealityBehindsKnownGreaterTroubleStrangeTruth IsBurdenHarmIgnorantPerilEnviedDeluded Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.” TroubleTruth IsDisaster Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon
“Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldBelieveArtCareSpiritualArtistDifferencesSeeingTroubleTruth IsDon't BelieveEntertainmentDistinctionVersusSaying The TruthArt Life Author:Eric Fischl