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He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

Chinese Proverb

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We advised clients to downgrade the shares because this is a company that has a troubled balance sheet, and the Mexican receivable issues problem adds another layer to the story of a company that is struggling to turn itself around.

Ben Reitzes

While only 10 percent are considered 'financially troubled,' virtually every Internet company we have come across is tightening its belt. Clearly, the company has a lot of work in front of it.

Holly Becker

I'm troubled by the process.

David Bauer

It makes politicians look like they're doing something good for their troubled constituency.

Richard Aboulafia

A lot of times, we start with the behavior-based interview questions, such as, 'Tell me about a time when you...,' and then fill in the blanks. As examples, 'grew an account by 50 percent,' or 'worked out a resolution with a troubled employee.' Their past performance will predict future performance.

Dustin Ford

The people in the states with these exams are troubled by the performance gap. But they're just not sure what to do about it.

Patricia Sullivan

But Mr. Koizumi blew a chance to mend Japan's troubled relations with China and South Korea. I'm afraid Japan's ties with (them) would be dangerously low.

Minoru Morita

Despite the sea of bad news lately in sector-wide demand, we see key progress at Oracle with its long-troubled 11i applications suite.

Bob Austrian

When I came here almost nine years ago our economy was troubled and our nation was divided.

Rodney King

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.

Marianne Moore

The global economy is facing stiff challenges from which our industry is certainly not exempt, ... However, Micron is poised with one of the strongest balance sheets in the industry, an excellent complement of people resources, an industry leading process technology and a resolve to emerge from these troubled times as the strongest semiconductor memory manufacturer in the world.

Steve Appleton

You hear about troubled adolescents. That was not the young men and women I saw. They were incredible workers, they had vision, they were dedicated and determined and committed to the project.

Rusty Fumi

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Christopher Hampton

Throughout the years, whenever darkness has touched my life, it has been a strong faith in God and a great network of friends that have carried me through the troubled waters and given me the strength to carry on. Your presence here today is an inspiration to me as it symbolizes the friendship and love we have shared throughout the years.

Dick Murgatroyd

I would support a recall of the mayor. I'm really troubled when a man talks about sunshine and hatches deals in back rooms. I'm very concerned that the process is being manipulated by some very wealthy people.

Paul Spiegelman

I'm troubled that she's leaving, ... I think we had a great year [in 2004] due in large part to how engaged she was in the process.

Kurt Browning

In theory, it's great. But I'm concerned that repeatedly when we look around the most troubled school districts, there is not a lot of choice being given to kids. The school districts drag their feet.

Jeanne Allen

They have such a strong team chemistry and such a great culture, committed to winning and to the team more than the individual. They can take on a troubled guy or a high-maintenance guy. ... They can mold him into shape, and basically protect him from himself.

Kevin Malone

[My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes] has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Hamlin Garland

Investors are concerned about credit risks again, and this is particularly bad news for financially troubled companies because investors used to think public funds would be there to help in the end.

Tetsuya Ishijima

The second game was much easier than I expected. I made some adjustments to my play due to the draft and kept the shuttle low, playing a lot of net shots which troubled him.

Hafiz

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Dimitri Simes

The fact that so many are troubled still with the unlimited right of abortion is a powerful statement as to where this country stands on abortion.

Rick Santorum

Obviously, we are gravely concerned and very troubled by the increased level of activity. I find it ironic and incredibly disingenuous when politicians say this is in the best interest of the children when the research says otherwise.

Jennifer Chrisler

I am, of course, deeply troubled that anyone would threaten me personally for challenging the New York Stock Exchange in its proposed plans to merge with Archipelago Holdings.

William Higgins

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I was neglected and dehydrated. Other people were tied up, emotionally and physically abused. The staff was completely untrained to deal with troubled teens.

Monty Lapica

The aim is to give people a kind of handle on what's going on in this troubled world.

Peter Scarlet

As the defenders of the Constitution, we are deeply troubled that illegal surveillance of law-abiding Americans could be happening in our own building.

Jeff Gamso

While the problem has not inhibited his ability to bat, he has of late been troubled by the shoulder while throwing.

John Gloster

How often do people adopt 11-year-old troubled boys? ... When he was adopted, his life opened up. ... If that hadn't happened, Gumby probably would have never happened.

Joe Clokey

The true historic extremes we saw over the past week or so lent a lot of credence to the likelihood of higher prices over the next 60 to 90 days and beyond. But I am very troubled by the inability of the broader market to rally in the face of these readings.

Jason Goepfert

I'm in love with my animal friends, and I'm very troubled.

Timothy Treadwell

Documents won't fix a troubled relationship.

David Gage

We go into some of the schools and work with some of the kids, these the kids who are troubled, whether it's having outbursts in class or they are a part of some gang related activity. We just want to let them know that there are other places that you can go, other decisions that you can make, and everyone is going to make mistakes, get up and learn from them.

Kareem Evans

Being much troubled to see the falseness of the constitution of the Church of England, I had like to have turned Separatist. Whereupon I kept a day of solemn humiliation and pondering of the thing; this scripture was brought unto me-he that denies Jesus Christ to be come in the flesh is antichrist.

Anne Hutchinson

What's just as amazing is that she had to start work on the last season of 'Friends,' so she was going back and forth between our shooting locations and the studio, and from bubbly Monica to the deeply troubled Sophie.

Greg Harrison

Life's troubled bubble broken.

Walter De La Mare

The underlying nature of a troubled country.

Fintan O'toole

He's certainly troubled by the sequence of events. It's a very odd and difficult time for him. He's getting through it, let's put it that way.

Bruce Zimet

I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination.

Frank L. Boyden

Groups of troubled youths.

Mike Burns

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression -- comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office.

Martin Grove

The work that has been reported there is extremely important, so we are of course troubled by the allegations that have been made and are hopeful that they are not true.

Kevin Eggan

The president is committed to saving Social Security, maintaining our hard won fiscal responsibility, reforming and strengthening our public schools so they work better for our children, passing a patient's bill or rights, strengthening America's leadership in the global economy and securing the peace in troubled areas around the world.

John Podesta

We believe a contract with steep labor concessions is the sign of a troubled core industry, not 'good news' for investors.

Gary Lapidus

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

Terry Lynn Taylor

He takes full responsibility for his actions, and he's really troubled by the pain he's caused the City Commission, Sante Fe and his family.

Gloria Fletcher

They are obviously troubled and they definitely need some help both for their own sake and for the safety of the community.

Dave Kvernstoen

If a mother and son are struggling in their relationship, we take the time to make that a part of what we deal with in the son's treatment. While family involvement in the treatment process can too easily be overlooked, it's critical. A strong bond with his mother, his father, his siblings, and so on, is key to any troubled boy's success.

John Weed

Let not your heart be troubled.

Bible

I feel sorry for George. He's a troubled person. He seemed to have some psychological problems.

Jeff Berman

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Little or no increase in what the state pays to take care of its most troubled children has resulted in a $100 million budget hole.

Mark Fontaine

We can hardly do anything about it. Chinese athletics has long been troubled by this problem.

Feng Shuyong

The secretary-general is greatly troubled by the worsening security situation in Chad, resulting from the ongoing fighting between government forces and rebel fighters.

Stephanie Dujarric

My sense was that the polarization that occurred in the last election really troubled people.

Christine Robinson

He brings a really unique perspective. Because he lived in Pakistan for 34 years, he has a great affection for Islam. As a Christian, he is very, very troubled by what is going on in Islam.

Wesley Smith

We are also asking people to remember animals, often the forgotten victims in such troubled times.

Michael Osullivan

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

Arthur Golden

Less focused and more troubled.

Walter Hewlett

What is happening in Tal Afar is an example of what should happen in other troubled places of Iraq.

Adnan Dulaimi

The list is a metaphor for troubled national parks all across the nation, ... Some of our national parks are becoming a national disgrace.

Thomas Kiernan

I have been very troubled by the idea of closing a school that has been so successful.

Candy Olson

It's a little bit like having Scott Peterson head up a seminar on troubled marriages.

Paul Steidler

Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone;and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor

These are just a few of the things we can do to help troubled youth to get on a career path.

Jerry Hughes

People are not always as troubled by a position you take as they are troubled when you flip and you flop and you try to get every side of the issue. You have seen what I believe is an election-year conversion.

Chet Culver

We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.

Rob Gould

I'm happy with the win. At this point of the season, a win is a win. We couldn't get going on offense and all year long we have been troubled in the red zone.

Mel Hay

The business community is troubled that the House has again acquiesced to organized labor and the Rendell administration on matters of bad public policy.

Floyd Warner

Still calls it a troubled company.

John Gavin

I am troubled by the assumption in the legislation that abortion services, as a matter of linguistics and a matter of law, cannot include discussing with a woman why she shouldn't have an abortion.

Wendy Kaminer

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Wally Lamb

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Thomas a Kempis

We have a vigorous suicide prevention program. Everyone at least once is trained to recognize the warning signs and council people who are troubled. We work and have for many years on that.

Martha Rudd

To fish in troubled waters.

Mathew Henry

There was just no other way to play it. There was no question this was a man who was tortured and troubled and filled with so many inconsistencies, plus the pain of dealing with the shocking task he was asked to undertake.

Dougray Scott

I was fed up with the team. I didn't even want to watch them, the way they were playing and with the scandal and everything. It just wasn't fun. I thought once they got rid of (troubled wide receiver) Randy Moss they'd jell a little better. But it got worse.

John Bush

I am troubled that a rule was admittedly violated and it took us five years to find out about it.

Andy Geiger

Other deplorable events have come to light which have troubled the civic and religious conscience of all and made more difficult a serene and resolute commitment to shared human values.

Abu Ghraib

I would be very troubled about how to deliver the project without active support from the city.

John Haley

The process within the EU has been a troubled one ... slow and cumbersome, ... a more energetic and aggressive approach.

Stuart Levey

I hope for the sake of those who lost their lives, including David, that something good will come out of this dreadful and intimidating situation, and that our troubled country can go back to its normal, happy self and get the change we all deserve.

David Stevens

If we cannot follow her physical footsteps throughout the troubled Middle East, what we can imitate are her attitudes, which in essence pertain to faith and love, ... She was a dwelling place for God, and so are we.

Mary Ford

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Roy L. Smith

We're not particularly positive on [the deal] at this point, ... P&G has a lot on its plate. It's a troubled business of its own and Clairol is under performing.

Carol Warner

I am troubled that I will be suspended for the third time despite the fact that the scientific evidence supports that I kept my promise that I would never use steroids again.

Michael Morse

The supporters of the track are certainly hurting their prospects. I'm very troubled by the conduct. My knee-jerk reaction is that they've set their cause back, if not defeated it.

Michael Mcmahon

Closing Brisbane instead of improving it is a mistake. There is still time to change course and to do what's right for New Jersey's most troubled children.

Bob Master

Our mission has always been to help investors create win-win scenarios that benefit both the troubled homeowner and the investor. The owner in distress saves some equity for a new start, and the investor realizes a profit on the resale of the home. That's far better than having the owner lose everything in an auction on the courthouse steps.

Alexis Mcgee

Chinese policies are endangering U.S. goals by supporting African dictatorships, hindering economic development, and exacerbating conflicts and human rights abuses in troubled countries such as Sudan and Zimbabwe.

Peter Brookes

I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.

Jacob Boehme

Art is a troubled man; I wouldn't want to let him down at this point when he really needs help. Since I began representing him . . . he's been a decent, honest person. Obviously, he's troubled on a level I didn't understand.

Ed Brass

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Etty Hillesum

It wasn't exactly uplifting, ... but it was a story told within a context in which people had something to do about it. They talked to each other immediately after the show. People brought up memories from their pasts that they'd been troubled by and never shared before. It was an amazing experience.

Elizabeth Fuller

He has a knack of going into troubled situations and being able to see through the forest and see where the opportunity is. A lot of people can figure it out and then they're afraid to pull the trigger. If you go back over Jerry's career, it's very obvious he had no trouble pulling the trigger.

Edward Breen