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Quotes About Trouble

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
~ Charles Olson
Suffering is rightly called "the school of faith," for it is only through trouble, difficulties, and setbacks that we are brought to the end of ourselves. The normal human tendency, particularly for strong-willed people, is to rely on our own strength and resources. But when those are not available to us, when everything has failed, when we have to abandon every other hope, we are forced to trust God alone.
~ Charles W. Colson
People rent time machines. They think they can change the past. Then they get there and find out causality doesn't work the way they thought it did. They get stuck, stuck in places they didn't mean to go, in places they did mean to go, in places they shouldn't have tried to go. They get into trouble. Logical, metaphysical, etc.
~ Charles Yu
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
~ Charlie Chaplin
did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain. Instinctively, all my clowning was based on this. My means of contriving comedy plot was simple. It was the process of getting people in and out of trouble.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing --- and then they marry him.
~ Cher
Swakhammer bid Rector good-bye, telling him to stay out of trouble. Rector wondered why everyone always told him that, since it never did a bit of good. Maybe they were all just optimists. Up
~ Cherie Priest
This is not your responsibility but it is your problem.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Julia was a nerd, a schoolgirl. She did all her homework and even extra-credit projects, got straight As, never got in trouble. Maybe that was why she was in this group. But Lucy didn't think even Jerry could help with a problem that big.
~ Chet Williamson
Aarti? She got me into trouble the first day we met,' Gopal said. I dipped a biscuit in my tea and listened.
~ Chetan Bhagat
That's the trouble with other work-from-home types… sometimes they're actually working.
~ Rob Harrell, Adam@Home, 2001
It's all in the mind and a bit in the heart but it goes in the body and that's where all the trouble comes in.
~ Terri Guillemets
Wouldn't it be awful if spinach hain't really healthful after all th' trouble it takes t'git the sand out of it?
~ Kin Hubbard, 1929
Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
~ Author Unknown
The more we focus on a problem, the more of a problem it becomes
~ H.W. Mann
There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
~ Hal Hartley
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
Nursing Home Orderly You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut-the-hell-up. Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name tag. You're in my world now, grandma.
~ Happy Gilmore
Ask Your Church for Help Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. —James 5:13-15
~ Harold Ivan Smith
Worry, on the other hand, is the persistent, nagging, debilitating concern over something you can generally do nothing about.
~ Harold J. Sala
I hope, my good sir, that you are not exposed to any difficulty on our account," said George, anxiously. "Fear nothing, George, for therefore are we sent into the world. If we would not meet trouble for a good cause, we were not worthy of our name." "But, for me," said George, "I could not bear it." "Fear not, then, friend George; it is not for thee, but for God and man, we do it," said Simeon.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
If we would not meet trouble for a good cause, we were not worthy of our name.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
He didn't say so but Andy agreed with the bodyguard. A good-looking bird like this one didn't have to kill anyone. What she did she did for D's and if a guy gave her too much trouble she'd just walk out and find someone else with money. Not murder.
~ Harry Harrison
At my age, I find I must be careful of my sleep, for I need it more but have more trouble winning it.
~ Harry Turtledove