Trouble Quotes by Dennis Potter, Christian D. Larson, Josh Groban, Robert Frost, J. K. Rowling, Jim Harrison and many others.
For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
I don’t think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people – less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Too much trouble,” “Too expensive,” or “Who will know the difference” are death knells for good food.
Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies… We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.
I’m going to take over the world. Everyone watch out, you’re in big trouble.
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: “You don’t have to get out of trouble if you don’t get into trouble.”
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. … The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.
When I had troubles, I’d go out – with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you’d go out and shoot, and you’d fantasize.
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television – everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don’t have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!
Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: ‘What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?’
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.
I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has
trouble remembering my name.
trouble remembering my name.
What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.
So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing – I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
Do not EXPECT troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.
The royal family‘s existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major’s rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They’re fine opening hospitals. It’s when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Balthazar was the kind of guy who used totally correct spelling and punctuation even when he was texting, which was sort of bizarrely hot. She was in serious trouble if commas could get her going.
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
Forget your troubles and just get happy.
The trouble with ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’ is that there’s always more everything than places.
When you see a black guy on TV, he’s always a thug or always portrayed as someone that’s in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that’s who we are. People often don’t try to understand black men as a whole. We’re creative, strong and influential.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it’s like sex. It’s enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
I don’t want to write every week, it’s too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I’m sick when I don’t write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen!
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: “I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don’t see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, “I’m going to hell because I don’t really care about the environment and I love to gossip.”
The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one’s troubles.
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.
You don’t need spirituality to discover the troubles that come your way. But, it’s good to know that troubles are not unique to you alone.
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.
It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.
I have trouble sometimes watching actors – even when they do a great job – with an accent. It kind of removes me, somehow. And maybe at some point, yeah, it could be a really cool experience. It’s not something that I consciously think, “Oh yeah, I want to do a movie with an accent.” Not to say that it couldn’t happen.
I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they’re just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.
If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.
When we hear His call and respond accordingly, there will be no limit to what God can and will do through His people. But if we do not even recognize when He is speaking, we are in trouble at the very heart of our relationship to Him.
Once you’re president, you can’t go anywhere without causing trouble. President Obama shows up in China, he’s chewing gum, they go crazy. A big stink because the president’s chewing gum. And you think, the Chinese are so easygoing about human rights. What’s the problem?
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
I looked back on the roaring Twenties – with its jazz, ‘Great Gatsby,’ and the pre-Code films – as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold Schwarzenegger sexually harassed them. When asked about it, President Clinton said ‘six? That’s not enough experience to be governor.’
If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.
Keep your head on the ball. You’ve got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball’s going, and they haven‘t even hit it yet.
I’m interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.
There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment without being bowed down is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known prosperity.
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles…The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.
We’re not just a band playing songs, we’re a safe place to go forget your troubles.
I don’t think you would have any trouble at all in deciding that you are thinking of some event and then visualizing it happening with its consequences, and constructing a rational analysis of it without being able to verbalize it adequately in anything like its full complexity.
It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.
I don’t care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me – art is the way human beings express what we can’t say in words.
Why people used to go to clubs was to have a great time and to forget their troubles and worries and stresses of the week and enjoy themselves and I think that the music was a huge, important part of that
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that’s when you know a congressman‘s in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working.
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.
Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble.
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I’m having trouble. I’ve just sacked my second screenwriter.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
People struggled on for years with ‘troubles,’ but they almost always succumbed to ‘complications.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration.
Having your own show, where you’re not in trouble all the time, because you’re kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.
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.
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Let us not see today’s troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.
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.
The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It’s far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It’s easy to get to, there’s no trouble with languages.
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn’t be.
I don’t do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I’m proud to be a troublemaker.
You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.
One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one’s ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way – professionally.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.
When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don’t have you.
When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.
I mean, some people say, ‘Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.’ And, you know, I think it wouldn’t be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.
So I think all gays who are born gay are overwhelming conservative, maybe apolitical, and all those angry gays, causing trouble for everybody, I don’t think they were born gay. I think they are just angry at their fathers.
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him.
The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.
I’ve been very lucky. I’ve had my problems in the past, I’ve had my troubles, but you move on. I had a great life and I am really thankful for it.
Yes, it’s funny, isn’t it? You try to do what’s best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.
The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ’s glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.
The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I’ve overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you’re Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn’t matter. We all know the country’s in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country’s in trouble.
I’m trouble, but in a good way.
See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It’s when people compliment you that you’re in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
The trouble with you, Vic,” he said, “is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn’t take human nature into account.
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
Obviously, I’m not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.
Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.
If you take the ’70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I’m out of that range, I’m in trouble.
The trouble with plays these days is that they’re too easy to understand.
When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.
We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?
I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We’d ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.
You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don’t laugh, it isn’t funny. If they cough, it isn’t interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.
The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
Never wait for trouble.
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That’s a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.
When you have one million dollars, you’re a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you’ve got trouble, a lot of headaches.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.
There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.
I’d like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I’m real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.
The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
While it’s true a small treat won’t blow your budget, indulging every day could – the same way a slice of cake probably won’t hurt but, if you make it a daily habit, you may have trouble fitting in your pants.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.
Social media is a double-edged sword. I’ve gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.
If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it’s going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it’s also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.
I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody’s troubles, everybody except mine.
I’ve gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine.
I don’t want to write every week, it’s too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I’m sick when I don’t write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
The thing I’ve learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it’s generally the ‘talking heads‘ that give us trouble.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don’t follow convenient narratives.
The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.
We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.
Thomson’s views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don’t have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don’t acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you’re sure to have a memory full of blunders.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Every honest researcher I know admits he’s just a professional amateur. He’s doing whatever he’s doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he’s going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn’t say in 1994 or 2002, I don’t think most people really care.
I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
When trouble ends even troubles please.
Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.
When I was growing up in my area, the worst problem for us was we never had a purpose, I’d just be looking for stuff to do, I would be bored, that’s how we would get into trouble.
Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.
I know I’m going to get in trouble!
If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
I think I never expected “Gender trouble” to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I’m always surprised.
Understanding is becoming aware of the fact that civilization itself is in trouble and we have done it by overpopulating the planet, and by moving toward self-service and greed. These sort of things are directly the wrong approach.
I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto.” (p123) Architecture of Happiness
Saruman,” I said, standing away from him, “only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you’ll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you’ll be in as much trouble as I am!
The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble.
Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.
One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do …its the doing of it that gives them trouble
I do have trouble with titles.
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
If you don’t concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you’ll be in trouble.
You don’t realize that you’re intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?
There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem… the project became classified. I couldn’t work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance.
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
Honesty is a foundation, and it’s usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it’s something that I can stand on.
Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.
All it means is that, while our minds may have trouble communicating, our bodies don’t have any problem at all.” “I don’t think it’s that simple.” “Sure it is.” “The earth moved,” she said softly. “That has to be more than bodies communicating.
Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.
When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.
I said from the very beginning, I don’t want a big house, I don’t want big grounds, I don’t want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
I don’t fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don’t do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn’t trouble me at all.
Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that’s why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.
I have trouble sometimes watching actors – even when they do a great job – with an accent.
Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful. It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can’t get out. And so I’m impatient with those who think that it’s easy for people to get out of trouble.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
He was impossibly gorgeous. I had trouble taking it in at times
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of telling whether the issue of their work would prove them to be fiends, or dreamers, or angels.
I think I was maybe a ned. I don’t know. I had a trakkie, a cap and got into trouble when I was younger and I don’t remember other neds round about me, so I suppose I must have been one. But a thinking ned, an intelligent ned.
I never base characters on real people – you can get into so much trouble that way!
Bored people looked for drama and caused trouble.
It’s not the questions that get us in trouble – it’s the answers.
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?
Here’s a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don’t worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don’t worry, be happy
Don’t worry, be happy now
You might want to sing it note for note
Don’t worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double
Don’t worry, be happy
Don’t worry, be happy now
That’s the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it’s flirting with your best friend instead. And you don’t know what to do. You’re thrown.
I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I’m reading them.
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
You trouble me so, Rand al’Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
I’m over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you’re in trouble. It’s like wanting to be married – you’ll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive. I’ve seen it.
Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another there’s going to be trouble.
I find it interesting to see people – mostly people who are younger than I am – going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren’t the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.
Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given the door with open.
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.
The first time you face up to a googly you’re going to be in trouble if you’ve never faced one before
The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
…as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.
A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.
The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
I’m real good at troubleshooting;
When there’s trouble…I start shooting.
When there’s trouble…I start shooting.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
Black men – one might be the president. Well, America’s in too much trouble – I don’t want that job now.
God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don’t know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. … Yeah, It. God ain’t a he or a she, but a It.
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I’ve got a war in my mind So, I just ride
“Gender trouble” is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it’s sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it’s like a former love affair you had and you’re done.
Adrian sighed. “I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.
Donald Trump, I hate to tell people who are concerned about it, is not going to be impeached. The American people believe in giving somebody a fair chance. He’s a new president. There have been troubles, there have been problems.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it would be impious to call ourselves ‘miserable.’ On the contrary, Man is a creature whom the Angels-were they capable of envy-would envy. Let us lift up our hearts!
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble – and will not publish with a clear conscience.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don’t get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
Love always causes trouble, that’s true, but in its favour, it energizes.
I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble. And we’ve seen so much of that in the last 20 years.
That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.
The counselor at our clinic would cry with the girls at the drop of a hat. She would find their weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it is to have a baby.
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
I’ve been a Mac guy for 20 years. Even if I’m having trouble with the latest MacBook Pro, I’m still a Mac guy.
I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
I wouldn’t give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.
God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.
What is the source of all this trouble? I’m saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That’s part of our tradition.
I had no trouble communicating, the player‘s just didn’t like what I had to say.
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
The trouble is I don’t believe my unbelief.
It’s more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That’s what painting is for me.
I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only “normal” people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn’t recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.
I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.
Don’t believe everything you read in the press. If somebody starts with me, I try to mess them up, but I don’t look for trouble.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, ‘Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.’
He had a come-and-get-me-baby-I’m-pure-trouble-and-you’re-gonna-love-it kind of attitude.
I have no idea who coined the term ‘the New Journalism,’ or when it was coined. I have never even liked the term. Any movement, group, party, program, philosophy or theory that goes under a name with ‘new’ in it is just begging for trouble, of course.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
No man is without his load of trouble.
The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.
If you’re a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you’re in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I’m going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.
I’ve never been one to just do what I’m told. I don’t say that necessarily with pride, it’s just something that has gotten me in trouble before.
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can’t get worse.
Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.
I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.
…well, if women’s work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn’t being accomplished at any given moment?
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect – how happy! how free!
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can’t touch them; you can’t punch them; you can’t yell at them.
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally ‘count our blessings,’ give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.
I have many sources of inspiration. I’d have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.
Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes
My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.’
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
I have followed my heart my whole life – the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I’ve been in trouble in points in my career.
If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.
It’s very disconcerting to start out and to say, “I’m going to tell the truth,” and then to realize it’s that much trouble.
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble – if you still have a job. And you know what? I’ve been saying it for years.
Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.
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.
Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie.
Much of what I say might sound like it’s stirring up trouble, but it’s the truth!
Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don’t worry. You’ll get it all back,he says.
The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us – and the forms reflect that.
That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody’s mind, even the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.
I did not know from a scientific perspective why I did not believe in evolution – but I knew from a Biblical perspective it had to be wrong or my faith was in trouble.
I had trouble making friends because we moved around so much.
Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.
When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn’t successful. It’s very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that’s Alex, I’ll support him and help any way I can.
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you’re in trouble.
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it’s you, and I think that’s what the audience is really interested in… you, how you’re going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.
It’s okay. You aren’t my type. What’s your type? Someone who gets into less trouble.
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.
…The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate – shall I say third-rate? – mind, Karl Marx.
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you’ll probably make it through the next one.
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
Obviously the trouble with having a hit with something like a cover of a ballad, you attract a whole new set of listeners, which is great, but on the other hand they start to pigeonhole you a little bit.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
In Literature, only trouble is interesting.
You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.
African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble – in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.
That’s the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you’ve been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you’re young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you’re doing is worth the doing.
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad’s alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn’t have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don’t-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama‘s eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it’s hard to carry on when no one loves you.
Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.
I don’t want to get myself in trouble – and I don’t think I’m super important or anything – but I think it’s so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they’re in art or music or they’re in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.
I have trouble voicing my thoughts… I can’t communicate very well that way.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don’t run from the others, we are fools.
If I ever got into trouble with my sisters or was slacking off, it was always my punishment that I couldn’t go to a practice or a game. That was the worst thing in the world.
Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, ‘I just don’t know where to turn’? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.
The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
You are allowed to do this – don’t worry about the rules, don’t worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.
If I had a horse buck with me now, I’m a little disappointed. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m a little disappointed if I couldn’t keep the horse out of trouble, whereas it used to be a source of pride, and now it’s sort of source of shame if I let the horse get lost.
But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.
It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.
My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.
I’m walking away from the Troubles in my Life.
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain’t so.
In the West, you don’t get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can’t do it. Not only can’t you tell the truth, you can’t think the truth. It’s just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.
There’s been more than one time when I’ve said something, and sort of the middle of what I’ve said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.
Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.
I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I’m lying in bed I think up stories. That’s where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I’m reading – sometimes reading someone else’s stories will make me think of one of my own.
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
Make love and not war! ‘Cause we don’t need no trouble.
What we need is love
To guide and protect us on.
If you hope good down from above,
Help the weak if you are strong now.
What we need is love
To guide and protect us on.
If you hope good down from above,
Help the weak if you are strong now.
Sociology is really in trouble as a field. I can tell you, because I’ve known young people who have wanted to go into it, and they have been uniformly advised, if you are a free thinker, stay away from sociology.
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
The trouble with climate change is it’s an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I’d like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.
I’m happy with my career and I’m not going to have the trouble of being typecast.
The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.
I think everyone should be with who they love. I don’t want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!
As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
There is really no crisis except an artificial one…If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It’s more likely that Americans will discover another culture through an American writer rather read a writer from that culture.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don’t think I’d have trouble doing that.
Nature is what you don’t have to trouble about. It looks after itself.
A party like this isn’t about the surprise factor. It’s about someone going to so much trouble that it just… overwhelms you.
If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.
This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
I get anxious about a lot of things, that’s the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can’t stop thinking about things all the time. And here’s the really destructive part – it’s always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.
I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to Heaven
You’ll find no policemen there.
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to Heaven
You’ll find no policemen there.
It’s like getting into film – I didn’t say early on, ‘I’m going to become a filmmaker,’ ‘I’m going to show my work at MoMA.’ When you start to think those things, you’re in trouble.
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn’t allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.
The trouble with a mask is it never changes
I like stirring things up. I’m on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don’t get in too much trouble.
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody’s perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups shouldn’t. Cover-ups create twice the trouble.
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it’s also in the system, the society.
I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you’re in trouble and make sure that you’re okay.
You don’t get into trouble because of the things you don’t know. It is the things you don’t know you don’t know that really get you into a mess.
