Quotes about trouble

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“I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.”

“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

“There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend”

“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.”

“Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.”

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”

“I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,ʺ said Christian. ʺShe was kind of pissed off that we didnʹt tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself.”

“I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”

“troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief…”

“I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.”

“everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow”

“Two U. S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.”

“The Creator made women to please the eye and trouble the mind.”

“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”

“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

“… Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage."
"You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next.”

“One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.”

“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

“Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.”

“There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.”

“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.”

“There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.”

“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.”

“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

“Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.”

“If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.”

“The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.”

“The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.”

“I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time… Its Free!”

“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”

“He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.”

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”

“Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.”

“I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.”

“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.”

“It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.”

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”

“I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.”

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been anperson. All people belong to aexcept me. Not to belong to amakes you too lonesome.”

“My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.”

“But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren’t blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I’ll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.”

“You are a great deal of trouble, Jace Herondale”

“The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.”

“My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.”

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”

“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.”

“Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.”

“Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.”

“Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.”

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”

“Troubleshooters?" Michael asked.

"When there's trouble," I told him, "they shoot it.”

“That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience.”

“Ralph… would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”

“Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you”

“How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.”

“I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors.”

“And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.”

“I'm scared of you two in the same place. That's like putting in an order for trouble, rather than just wishing for it.”

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“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.”

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

“It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.”

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

“Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem”

“You did not just say that. I have the feeling were on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other." -Christian
"I already have a nickname for you, but I'll get n trouble if I say it in class." - Rose”

“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.”

“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

“It doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. “Some things are worth the trouble.”

“We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.”

“George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.”

“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.”

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“… well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment?”

“Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”

“Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.”

“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”

“He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.”

“The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.”

“In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.”

“It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.”

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”

“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.”

“Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.”

“‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.”

“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.”

“When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.”

“I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”

“Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.”

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”

“I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.”