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Quotes About Trouble

Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.
~ Rachel Caine
Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
~ Albert Brooks
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.
~ Dennis Hopper
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
~ Edith Sitwell
Although Jesus' prayers do not offer a foolproof formula, they do give clues as to how God works — and does not work — on this planet. Especially when trouble strikes, we want God to intervene more decisively, but Jesus' prayers underscore God's style of restraint out of respect for human freedom.
~ Philip Yancey
These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.
~ Philippa Gregory
scowling with worry. "Come at once, he's
~ Philippa Gregory
This always happened. No matter how much Wally tried to stay out of trouble, he didn't.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
We're dead," said Wally. "We are cooked! Fried!
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
He has a last request to make to them—that they will trouble his sons as he has troubled them, if they appear to prefer riches to virtue, or to think themselves something when they are nothing.
~ Plato
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~ Plautus
Prometheus had been foolish to bestow fire on men instead of selling it to them: he would have made money, placated Jove, and avoided all that trouble with the vulture.
~ Primo Levi
You okay? Fine. Your heart's beating really fast. Gee, thanks. That's very comforting that you can hear it. He smiled, and it was the old Michael, the one she'd first met before all the vamp stuff. Yeah, I know it is. Sorry. Just stay behind me if there's trouble. You sound like Shane. Well, he did say he'd kill me if I got you hurt. I'm just looking after my own neck. Liar.
~ Rachel Caine
Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.
~ Rachel Caine
It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm more worried about you, she said. You and trouble... yeah. She heard the smile in his voice. We're like that.
~ Rachel Caine
That's not trouble; that's fail. Tell me that isn't all the whites. Like, Michael's and Shane's, too. All the whites, Claire said, and held up the guilty red sock. Yours? Oh, damn. Eve snatched it out of Claire's fingers and shook the sock like a floppy rattle. Bad sock! Bad! You are never going anywhere fun ever again!
~ Rachel Caine
They did seem pretty serious about their mayhem.
~ Rachel Caine
Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.
~ Rachel Caine
What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry.
~ Dean Koontz
this woman was trouble the first moment he saw her and heard her exuberant "good morning." Even her name was cheerful: Julia. Looking at her, it was easy to envision the opening scene from The Sound of Music, with Julie Andrews twirling around, arms extended, singing, joyful, excited.
~ Debbie Macomber
He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement. Fifteen thousand! He says you're a great deal of trouble. She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh. I am. I thought so. He leveled Drew a look. If I pay you the fifteen thousand, do you swear to keep her? Drew reared back his head. Forever? Her father scowled. Forever. Oh, I suppose. He gave a long-suffering sigh. If I must. She bit the insides of her cheeks to keep from laughing outright.
~ Deeanne Gist
Jem made the little Scottish noise again, and Brianna looked sideways at him. Are you doing that on purpose? He looked up at her, surprised. Doing what? Never mind. When you are fifteen, I'm locking you in the cellar. What? Why? he demanded indignantly. Because that's when your father and grandfather started getting into real trouble, and evidently you're going to be just like them.
~ Diana Gabaldon
usually went to the trouble of separating these from their original possessors before presenting them to me—but then the fur stirred, and a pair of bright eyes peered out of the tangled mass. "My dog's hurt," the man announced brusquely. He set
~ Diana Gabaldon