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Quotes About Trouble

I'm almost always in a predicament.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.
~ Artie Lange
What a terrible thing life can be.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Sooner or later, having two separate agendas is going to cause trouble.
~ Jeff Lindsay
But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am; as I said, no rest for the wicked.
~ Jeff Lindsay
First there was Desdemona the week before, giving advice to her daughter-in-law. "Why you want more children, Tessie?" she had asked with studied nonchalance. Bending to look in the oven, hiding the alarm on her face (an alarm that would go unexplained for another sixteen years), Desdemona waved the idea away. "More children, more trouble . . .
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Rum and Coke, please, she told the bartender. Maybe that was why Liza and Bonnie never had guy trouble: great hair. She looked at Liza, racehorse-thin in purple zippered leather...Okay it wasn't just the hair. If she jammed herself into liza's dress, she'd look like Barney's slut cousin. Diet Coke, she told the bartender.
~ Jennifer Crusie
I have to see him and Trevor Ogilvie on Monday. Both senior partners at once. Good for you. I hope Jack's in trouble up to his neck. They're being blackmailed. Blackmail? Riley said, his voice full of disbelief. Jack? There's stuff out there that's even worse than the stuff everybody knows about him?
~ Jennifer Crusie
I have a special place devoted to worry that has an insatiable hunger to be filled. When it's empty, it worries anyway about what it's going to worry about. A sick kitten is ideal worry-material.
~ Jenny Diski
SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
~ Jenny Holzer
Isaiah Jim Dekker had included with his last e-mail: "But Lord, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strength each day and our salvation in times of trouble.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long. And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I mean if she's real, she's in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who's really like that is going to last around here?
~ Jerry Spinelli
Good Boy: Just because he doesn't get into trouble doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate trouble.
~ Jerry Spinelli
He wanted her. Now. He wanted her all night. Every night for a week. A month. Maybe even a year. He sank down in a chair beside the fire and rubbed his eyes. "I'm in trouble," he muttered. And never had he believed a statement more.
~ Jess Michaels
I'm flummoxed by this unraveling of time, I'm losing my grip on myself. I know that nothing awful will happen on the other side of the door. If anything, I'm about to have a perfectly forgettable day: a class to teach, a meeting with colleagues, maybe a movie. But I'm afraid of forgetting something crucial—my cell phone or my identity card, my health insurance or my keys. And I'm afraid of running into trouble.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
~ Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.
~ Rick Yancey
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious.
~ Stanton Delaplane
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
~ Stephen Leacock
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
At Libertyville High, I was a bad student, chronic truant, and all-round incorrigible. I was forever being sent to the principal's office to be disciplined.
~ Marlon Brando
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. I had a student classification and they said that anybody who'd taken part in these demonstrations would be reclassified and drafted. And that's when I went to Canada.
~ Cheech Marin