All Quotes

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
‐‐ E. B. White

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
‐‐ Don Marquis

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.
‐‐ Ernest Poole

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
‐‐ Michael Palin

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
‐‐ Louis Kronenberger

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
‐‐ Anzia Yezierska

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
‐‐ Geoff Ryman

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
‐‐ A. E. Housman

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
‐‐ Livy

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
‐‐ O. Henry

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
‐‐ Frederick William Robertson

The true and correct solution to eradicating discrimination is by establishing religious Sepharadi educational institutions. This is one of the reasons Shas was founded.
‐‐ Eli Yishai

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
‐‐ Pope John XXIII

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
‐‐ Aristotle

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
‐‐ Bruce Nauman

The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
‐‐ Paul Horgan

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
‐‐ Roy Ayers

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
‐‐ Abu Bakr

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
‐‐ Dean Stanley

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
‐‐ Harold Warner

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
‐‐ Alice Meynell

The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.
‐‐ Alice Meynell

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
‐‐ Tom Brady

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.
‐‐ Richard Branson

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
‐‐ Asa Hutchinson

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
‐‐ Robert Harris

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
‐‐ John Buchan

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov

The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.
‐‐ Michael O'Donoghue

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

The true excitement comes from the actors - that gives you the true drama - and whatever I can do with the camera, that's icing on the cake.
‐‐ Tony Scott

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt