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Quotes About Trouble

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx
~ David Oliver
There is always doubt and always fear. There is always trouble, always tension. Tension and trouble; fear and doubt; war, war, war and then, right on cue- As if by magic, here come Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.
~ David Peace
These should be the happiest days, weeks and months of your life, but behind the scenes, upstairs and down, there is always doubt, always fear and always trouble-
~ David Peace
He succeeded in staying out of exactly and only those forms of postadolescent trouble that were not winked at, sating himself with those that were.
~ David Quammen
don't like this guy. I know it's just a first impression, but those are the kind of impressions I'm most comfortable with. Looking too deeply into a person is tiring and not usually worth the trouble. And in this case, especially since he's the self-identified enemy, I'm going to stick with not liking him.
~ David Rosenfelt
Worry:Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
~ Dean Ing
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
~ Dean Inge
In my experience it is the trouble you do not anticipate that is the most dangerous.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Do you know what sort of trouble you are courting?" "Courting?" I gave him a scornful look. "I married it long ago. As our favorite detective, Arcadia Brown, would say to her faithful Garvin, 'Excelsior!
~ Deanna Raybourn
Trouble has smelled like a lot of things in my life. A job gone wrong. A one-way street I never should have turned down. A man in faded Levi's with a smile that broke my heart half a dozen times and loved it back together again.
~ Deanna Raybourn
He smiled. "I think a blonde. Anything with black hair has always been trouble for me.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Men are trouble" "Amen to that." Peach said. "You were happily married for fifty years," Miz June said, "I don't understand why you are agreeing." "He Left Me." Peach said "He DIED." "Same thing.
~ Deb Caletti
Ah, human beings. We cause problems to solve problems.
~ Deb Caletti
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
~ Larry McMurtry
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
~ Thelma Ritter
We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble
~ Giacomo Casanova
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
~ Michael Crichton
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
~ John Irving
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
~ Nellie Bly
For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude.
~ Jean Plaidy
Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Don't kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
What are You, my God? I thought angrily. How do You compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to You their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does Your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people's wounded minds, their ailing bodies?
~ Elie Wiesel
There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.
~ Elizabeth Berg