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Quotes About Trouble

Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. You know, Grover mumbled, I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.
~ Rick Riordan
It is true I do not like fire. But Leo Valdez's flames are not strong enough to trouble me. Somewhere behind Hazel, a soft, lyrical voice said, What about my flames, old friend? You, he said from Percy's mouth. Me, Hecate agreed. It has been millennia since I fought at the side of a demigod. What do you say? Shall we play with fire?
~ Rick Riordan
P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.
~ Rick Riordan
Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.
~ Rick Riordan
The vulture Nekhbet, who'd one possessed my gran (long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished in hot sauce ( don't even ask) - page 9
~ Rick Riordan
Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.
~ Rick Riordan
PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY!
~ Rick Riordan
Kronos took the child in his arms and saw right away that Demeter was another goddess. She glowed with an aura even more powerful than Hestia's. She was trouble with a capital tau.
~ Rick Riordan
A tinkerer," snapped Pasiphaë. "Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble." Leo blinked. "Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well, then, you should know all about us tinkerers. We're more into fixing, building, occasionally sticking wads of oilcloth in the mouths of rude ladies—
~ Rick Riordan House of Hades
So don't be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God. God's grace is still in full force; he is still for you, even when you don't feel it. In
~ Rick Warren
The Gender Defender is someone who actively, or by knowing inaction, defends the status quo of the existing gender system, and thus perpetuates the violence of male privilege and all its social extensions. The gender defender, or gender terrorist, is someone for whom gender forms a cornerstone of their view of the world. Shake gender up for one of these folks, and you're in trouble.
~ Kate Bornstein
Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Never let it be said that I could not talk my way out of any trouble that I could not punch.
~ Kate Elliott
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
~ Katherine Paterson
In times of trouble, however, there can come a certain closeness, a kind of coziness of spirit.
~ Kathryn Lasky
If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?
~ Kay Ryan
That's trouble. The pixies will sour your milk." "I thought it was hobgoblins who soured milk." "A dirty lie. Spread by the pixies, no doubt.
~ Kelley Armstrong
A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Yep, Gin and Brandi. Call me crazy, but naming your daughters after alcoholic beverages is just asking for trouble.
~ Kelley Armstrong
smart. I'm pretty smart myself. I know that smart doesn't mean nice, or even mean that you have a lot of common sense. Look at all the trouble smart people get themselves into.
~ Kelly Link
I didn't fall in love with Jake because he was smart. I'm pretty smart myself. I know that smart doesn't mean nice, or even mean that you have a lot of common sense. Look at all the trouble smart people get themselves into.
~ Kelly Link
Trials rarely found men not guilty. The general view was that if a man were innocent he would not have got into trouble in the first place.
~ Ken Follett
Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.
~ Ken Follett
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill