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Quotes About Trouble

Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.
~ Joan Didion
She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished.
~ Joan Didion
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.
~ Joan Didion
Everyone was in scrubs. I noticed one man who was not in scrubs. "Is this the wife," he said to the driver. Then he looked at me. "I'm your social worker." And I guess that was when I knew. That's something else to remember. If they give you a social worker, you're in trouble.
~ Joan Didion
Getting the most important results, and have no idea what biggest trouble you've done and start being nervous
~ Unknown
Getting in trouble in school and your teacher calls home...being nervous for the rest of the day is the worst feeling.
~ Unknown
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
~ Bruce Willis
You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.
~ Unknown
If one ever sees something written in red, one knows trouble and change lie ahead.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Time is God's patience which can heal everything sooner or later, but the trouble in this world is most people run faster than time.
~ Unknown
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Whenever we meet disappointment and sickness and trouble, my boy, let us thank Him for having brought us this hour, and let us not forget meekness, for it is written: 'On this man will I look, even on him who is poor and sorrowful and who trembleth at My word.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Life has quicksands, life has snares
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I shall leave my studio toward May. Its drawback is, as you know, that I am greatly handicapped by the neighbours, and I notice that people are still afraid of the priest, though perhaps he wouldn't meddle any further. But since there has been trouble once, the best thing is a radical change.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Then you'll cry and go on livin'. But girl, you be borrowing trouble 'fore there be trouble to borrow. You done be lettin' that fear take over your heart again. What happened to your trust, chile? What happened to your trust?" Rose
~ Unknown
Ça m'a toujours tapée comme c'était beau, et ce jour particulièrement. Le viol ne trouble aucune tranquillité, c'est déjà contenu dans la ville.
~ Virginie Despentes
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
~ Voltaire
Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak! ~Sir Constant
~ Unknown
IF this importunate heart trouble your peace With words lighter than air
~ W.B. Yeats
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble.
~ Malcolm X
Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails.
~ David Letterman
Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.
~ Peter Schiff
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
~ Diego Corrales