#trouble

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #deserve #every #everything #example

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#any #been #behave #chance #cheerful

Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. ↗

— Terri Windling

#charles-de-lint #childhood #power-of-stories #reading #save-lives

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. ↗

— John Eaton

#composers #expecting #follow #get #i

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anticipation #greatest #just #pleasures #remember

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. ↗

— John Engler

#complete #education #example #instinctively #knows

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#done #get #government #i #intention

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#general #people #poorer #troubled

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ↗

— Erica Jong

#even #more #risk #trouble #you

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. ↗

— Carl Jung

#among #chaotic #currents #life #long