"If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them."

--

David Tang

#Trouble Quotes

“I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.”
“Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.”
“Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.106
“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“I've seen God. He bats at No. 4 for India in tests”
“When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.”
“My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.”

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