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Quotes About Trouble

God and the Soldier all men adore, In time of trouble and no more, For when war is over And all thing righted, God is neglected, And the Old Soldier slighted.
~ Jan Morris
Oh, no," said Mrs. Miniver. "They do both, I'm certain. But the trouble is, they keep the two processes entirely separate. They've never learnt to think with their hearts or feel with their minds.
~ Jan Struther
Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage ofsome, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.
~ Jane Austen
It is futile to plan a city's appearance, or speculate on how to endow it with a pleasing appearance of order, without knowing what sort of innate, functioning order it has. To seek for the look of things as a primary purpose or as the main drama is apt to make nothing but trouble.
~ Jane Jacobs
To seek for the look of things as a primary purpose or as the main drama is apt to make nothing but trouble.
~ Jane Jacobs
When a civilization does not support creativity it begins to falter. When it distrusts its gifted people, rather than encouraging them, a nation is at least in trouble.
~ Jane Roberts
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out? Lula
~ Janet Evanovich
Looks like you're on a roll. This is the second car you've toasted this week. Carl Costanza - Hot Six
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't know much about cars, Joyce said, but I think someone took my engine.
~ Janet Evanovich
Dad's on a fishing boat in front of Carter's estate. If we get into trouble, all I have to do is press the button on the tiny transmitter in my pocket and he'll destroy the dome on top of Carter's house. Is that enough of a distraction for you? Maybe we can work out something a little more subtle.
~ Janet Evanovich
Personally, I thought we were in big trouble if I was the one standing between the world's population and hell.
~ Janet Evanovich
Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.
~ Tina Brown
I bridled strongly when Labour introduced their Right to Roam, fearing that it would be misused by the hard Left to stir up unnecessary trouble in the countryside. In fact, greater access to the uplands has been a very good thing.
~ Nicholas Soames
Nigeria and Pakistan are two countries that have had a lot of trouble with polio. And part of the reason is that there's a lot of political unrest, and people really distrust what the government is doing. That has an effect on people's health, and it has an effect on the health of children.
~ Eula Biss
'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
~ David O. Selznick
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
~ Zac Goldsmith
I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!
~ Leslie Nielsen
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
~ John Dewey
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.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
~ William Shakespeare
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
~ Patsy Cline
The manager might like it sometimes when I play up front because I can cause trouble for the defenders, but for me, my best position is defensive midfield, stopping the opposition, and then looking to impose myself on a game.
~ Marouane Fellaini