The differences between the President and the Prime Minister were at least in one respect something more than the obvious differen...ces of national character, education, and even temperament. For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World; while Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow--despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep a...s I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled--secure from violent passions or temptations to evil--those who have neve...r needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what I needed to help me go to sleep happy, with untroubled peacefulness that no mistress since then was able to give me becau...se I doubted them at the very time at which I believed in them and because I never possessed their hearts in the way received my mother's heart, totally and without the reservations of an afterthought, without the relics of the intentions directed towards someone other than me--was that my mother be the one who lean towards me that face where appeared under the eye something which seemed to be a flaw, but which I loved as much as the rest....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Very early in our children's lives we will be forced to realize that the "perfect" untroubled life we'd like for them is just a fa...ntasy. In daily living, tears and fights and doing things we don't want to do are all part of our human ways of developing into adults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We shall make mistakes, but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principles. I... remember that my old school master Dr. Peabody said in days that seemed to us then to be secure and untroubled, he said things in life will not always run smoothly, sometimes we will be rising toward the heights and all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great thing to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall the Spring dawn, and she still clad in smiles, And with an unscathed brow,... Rest in the strong arms of her palm-crowned isles, As fair and free as now?
We know not; in the temple of the Fates God has inscribed her doom; And, all untroubled in her faith, she waits The triumph or the tomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his r...ule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to. But as soon as a storm arises and the sea begins to heave and the ship to move, such a delusion is no longer possible. The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »