Quotation Explorer - 'Trouble'

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. - Jane Austen
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there. - Herb Caen
Persecution for Christians is not a possibility, it's a promise, it's not a maybe, it's a surely! Following Jesus can mean finding the trouble you've been looking for! - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? - Anaximenes
I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. - Mark Twain
All men are troublesome but some are more troublesome than others.All women are troubles although, some are more of a trouble than others. - Prinx Maurice
If you ever have trouble sounding condescending, ask a UNIX user to show you how it's done. - Scott Adams
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me. - Angela L. Wozniak
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death. - Eddie Izzard
The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some. - D.A. Botta
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. - John Wayne
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it. - Kurt Vonnegut
Your true abilities will reveal themselves when you are in a time of trouble. - Debasish Mridha
I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. - Andrew Smith
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.
We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are founded - founded - not on money but on what is fair and just all round. - Neil M. Gunn
I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by - Sara Niles
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. - Deepak Chopra
The purpose of Karate is to guide you out of trouble by any means necessary, both in actual combat and in life - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. - Euripides
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. - Ann Landers
He that seeks trouble never misses. - French Proverb
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. - Anonymous Holy Bible Job 5 7
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore
We are searching for the most humble man on the planet so that we can award him with a great honor but we are having trouble finding the guy. - R.A.Delmonico
Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult? - Suman Pokhrel
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always. - Justine Larbalestier
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. - Iain M. Banks
The power of intention can open the door of opportunity and transform a valley of trouble into a triumph of joy. - Debasish Mridha
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. - Edgar Watson Howe
The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. - William Shakespeare
It's not the questions that get us in trouble. It's the answers.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. - Samuel McChord Crothers
You will have more fun on your vacation if you maintain a mental age of 18 or less. Act just old enough to make your travel connections and stay out of trouble.
But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity. - Michka Assayas
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble. - Robert M. Sapolsky
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. - John Wanamaker
And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it. - Neil Gaiman
Why to be in this room?If I was smart... I won't stay in this room and I will move in a room where people are more clever than me... but If it's easy as possibility... I want without a trouble to finish school. - Deyth Banger
I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am. - Cleveland W. Gibson
Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size. - Cassandra Duffy
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart I have overcome the world.John 16:33 - Anonymous
Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, He’ll get in trouble and he’ll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It’s the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves. - Ursula Vernon
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets neither of us have any. - Vincent Van Gogh
When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air. - Dejan Stojanovic
You’re forgetting… we never get in trouble in that class. Remember I gave Mr. Hendry that lap dance last year. I’m thinking he’s expecting one this year as well. - Carol - Matthew Leeth
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Ernest Benn
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. - Jeremy Taylor
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. - Herbert V. Prochnow
You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. - Joel Chandler Harris
The trouble is that we follow each other terribly. - Maliheh Sadat Razavi
It’s because we help out when they’re in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara - Masashi Kishimoto
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious. - Judy Garland
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. - Whoopi Goldberg
The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up. - Gordon B. Hinckley
As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble. - Matshona Dhliwayo
When in trouble, run to God. When in pain, dwell in His presence. When you don't know what to say or do, ask God and for every moment praise God. He is always by your side! - Gift Gugu Mona
A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. - Debasish Mridha
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. - Charles Luckman
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. - Josh Billings
The Lord delivers us from the seventh trouble. He shall surely deliver us from the eight one. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Men would have been badly in trouble if their hands didn’t fit their dick. - M.F. Moonzajer
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble - Rudyard Kipling
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
We all have days when we say that we are gown-ups, that we are mature, have a lot of experience and don't need advise from others.But it is our mom and dad we turn to when we're in trouble or can't find the answer to a question. - Maurice J. Dubois
That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it? - Peter Washington
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. - Larry McMurtry
The things I never say never get me into trouble. - Calvin Coolidge
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. - Cory Doctorow
I use the word mystery,rather than magic.I love magic.something magic was always going to happen. When it did, it never did anything but land me in trouble. MYSTERY is the depth of the sacred.Page 33 coming home to my self - Marion Woodman
I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . . which always leads to disillusionment . . . which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there. - Kurt Bubna
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it. - William Howard Taft
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. - Herb Caen
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there. - Gertrude Stein
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow. - Thomas Paine
No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild. - James Gillis
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. - Tom Lehrer
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger
The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. - Terry Pratchett
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. - Jael McHenry
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble. - Hyrum W. Smith
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. - Ellen DeGeneres
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. - P. J. O'Rourke
The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music. - Anonymous
Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered. - Mansi Soni
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. - Bill Copeland
When the body is in trouble, we must find and eliminate the cause, not medicate the symptom - Nina Leavins
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale
Dear refuge of my weary soul,On thee, when sorrows rise,On thee, when waves of trouble roll,My fainting hope relies. - Anne Steele
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. - Patrick Young
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. - Johnny Cash
A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you. - Doris Wild Helmering
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. - Arlene Francis
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. - John Barrymore
Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking. - John Morley
I’m not a lot of trouble, she said.His gaze slid to her mouth. You sure about that?Completely. And then she flashed him an indeed trouble-filled smile.And that’s when he knew. He was the one in trouble. Deep trouble. - Jill Shalvis
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. - Carl Jung
Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments. - Randy K. Milholland
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. - Katherine Dunn
I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me. - Pippa DaCosta
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. - Dinah Shore
In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable. - Frank Wilczek
the best of" show was completely gone and we were in big trouble, except we didn't really care. - Tina Fey
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? - Neal Stephenson
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse. - Ruby Wax
What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble. - Rick Riordan
If you’re having trouble counting your blessings, remember that you are alive to count them. - Charles F. Glassman
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sidney J. Harris
The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any. - John F. Kennedy
The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God - Martyn Stanley
When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble. - Maryann Austin
For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, I am in no hurry to grow young again. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. - L. M. Montgomery
If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble. - Amit Kalantri
Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible. - Edward Readicker-Henderson
A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it? - Nanamoli Thera
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. - Dennis Potter
Do not let other to love you if you really do not want as I know the trouble and pain of one side love. - Jayashan Adhikari
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. - Scott Westerfeld
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. - Maureen Murphy
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. - Bill Watterson
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me. - Ann Landers
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. - James Brown
Don't trouble yourself. God didn't make us to abandon us. - Michelangelo Buonarrotigelo
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. - Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots. - Doctor Who
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
let what you reckon to be trouble have trouble troubling you - Christian Essel
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. - Niccolo Machiavelli
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' - Ann Landers
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)] - Joanna Russ
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading - William Stafford
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them. - Catherine Drinker Bowen
The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. - Robert A. Heinlein
Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin. - David W. Earle
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. - Christopher Morley
The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance. It's know'n so many things that ain't so. - Josh Billings
We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY! - Donald Pillai
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. - Charlotte Brontë
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. - Titus Maccius Plautus
I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her. - Nina LaCour
Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - Dean Ing
Every writer I know has trouble writing. - Joseph Heller
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with. - George Carlin
Trouble always seems to find a way to live inside my mind.
The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them - Anne Tyler
A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot. - Marty Rubin
A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors. - Francis de Sales
If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by what we think I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to. - Aaron Blaylock
Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble. - Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. - Nikita Khrushchev
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. - William Faulkner
The trouble with scary people is everyone's too scared to tell them how scary they are - Janey Colbourne
An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else. - Tullian Tchividjian
Humans without humanity, trouble in the World for eternity. - Mouloud Benzadi
See, an ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after an ugly person gets at least cab-fare. - Harvey Firestein
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. - L. M. Montgomery
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett
Why are the police REALLY having trouble recruiting officers - especially Black officers? We have to bridge the gap between community and law enforcement. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
I do my job like I breathe so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble. - Karl Lagerfeld
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - C. S. Lewis
I believe, he said gently, we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else’s. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together. - Mary Balogh
Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. - Gene Wolfe
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him. - Cher
Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men. - Junot Díaz
You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg. - Hugh Elliott
Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. - Halle Berry
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damned greedy. - Herbert Hoover
Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women. - Robert Jordan
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. - Thomas J. Watson
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
She used to think alone was the answer. Alone would stop the whispers and the taunts. Alone couldn't get her into any more trouble. Alone meant not getting hurt. Now, she'd give anything to see another human being. To hear someone call her name - Kathryn Holmes
The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything. In this century, 'anything' has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time. - Charles Krauthammer
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. - Alexis de Tocqueville
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Titus Maccius Plautus
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism. - Fidel Castro
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.... - Ziad K. Abdelnour
That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away. - Nick Hornby
Every little or big problem has a reason,Every year there is a winter season,Every trouble goes away with time,After winter spring comes with rhyme. - Debasish Mridha
It is not the path that you have trouble finding. You knew your path since your first daydream. It's courage you're searching for - courage to trust yourself and stop searching for a travel partner who knows better than you where to go. And courage is only built in action. - Vironika Tugaleva
I love those who can smile in trouble... - Leonardo da Vinci
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable! - R. Stevens
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. - Peter S. Jennison
Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble. - Ashish Patel
The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble - Toni Sorenson
If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble. - Helen Gurley Brown
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. - Mennonite Proverb
She's in trouble, but I envy her. - Denice Envall
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds. - Michel de Montaigne
my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting - Hiroko Sakai
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine
We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses. - H. V. Adolt
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible. - Mark Twain
... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think - J.D. Salinger
The trouble with having a fertile mind is that the weeds grow as prolific as the pastures. - P.K. Shaw
I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there - Woody Guthrie
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Praying about everything in our lives and keeping quiet can keep us out of a lot of trouble. - Amanda Penland
Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy. - Alice Walsh
There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all. - Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke
Love subtracts sorrow, divides trouble, adds blessings, and multiplies joy. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. - Anonymous
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. - Jane Austen
I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do. - Billy Connolly
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E.W. Howe
Monsters always make more trouble before they die. - Melinda Gebbie
If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around. - Matthew Donnelly
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. - Bruce Cockburn
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time. - Willem de Kooning
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something. - L. Ron Hubbard
Lots of people in history have only done their jobs and look at the trouble they caused - Terry Pratchett
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
The innocent little girl said at the end of her prayer "Jesus, please take care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all in trouble - Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence! - Deyth Banger
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. - Elizabeth George
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong
All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end. - James Franco
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...." - Sinclair Lewis
Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life. - Chikamso Efobi
A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of water . . . Cheers to the good life - Constance Friday
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. - Cher
Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble. - Bradley B. Dalina
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. - Thomas Jefferson
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. - Samuel Butler
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected. - Will Rogers
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. - Chief Joseph
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - Edgar Watson Howe
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. - Azhar
You can’t separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble. - Bamigboye Olurotimi
It only makes sense to me when I can get in trouble for it. Maya - Girl Meets World
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. - H.L. Mencken
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so. - Bob Edwards
We’re going to make a tunnel for that ship. We’re going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya… he paused. I’ll handle it myself, do you understand? Johan… Vital Perception - D.L. Given
The foolish man lies awake all night Thinking of his many problems; When the morning comes he is worn out And his trouble is just as it was.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. - George Burns
When you are in trouble, you need to put all your energies into thinking that there is a way out. Then, the bottom, the dark hole, becomes just a springboard from which you can leap so high that your head might hit a cloud. - Fatema Mernissi
The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you're hungry again. - George Miller
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is. - George Santayana
Worry is interest paid on trouble before is falls due.
Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble. - Sara Sheridan
That’s going to be your trouble judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. - George Bernard Shaw
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ... - Chico Xavier
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Charles De Secondat
In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...
If you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election. - Will Rogers
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). - Faith Popcorn
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. - Confucius
As parents, the most important part of our job isn't to keep children out of trouble or to prevent them from making mistakes. It's to stand by and support them as they learn and grow from those they need to make. - Taiki Matsuura
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet. - Osho
Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell. - Doctor Who
The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment. - Elizabeth Aston
This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end. - Richard Glover
Saying 'Love you' never creates a story, its the beginning of trouble. - Sumanta Goswami
In the times of trouble, be like the strong wall. In the times of joy, be like the smiling sun. - Santosh Kalwar
There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw - D.E. Ireland
Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie! - Sidney Howard
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble. - Amit Kalantri
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards - Andrei Tarkovsky
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye that was the trouble I wanted to kiss you good night and there's a lot of difference. - Ernest Hemingway
Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you. - Constance Friday
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