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Quotes About Trouble

They insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own, and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing, is one that they can't or won't entertain.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Drest had made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to the kind of people who made all the trouble in history-brilliant, intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball math-and-technology buffs.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Mother would be in real trouble right now.
~ Robert Bloch
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
~ Robert Browning
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
~ Robert Frost
It has often been said that prayer is as basic to spiritual life as breathing is to our natural lives. It is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble, prayer is a way of life.
~ Kenneth W. Osbeck
The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch. Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!
~ Khaled Hosseini
How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!'" A
~ Khaled Hosseini
Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)
~ Kim Harrison
Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.
~ Kim Harrison
They weren't idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.
~ Kim Harrison
I didn't kill Francis," I said. "He managed that all by himself. And Lee was dragged off by a demon he summoned. Nick went over a bridge." Mrs. Sarong's smile widened, and she patted my hand again. "Very well done on the last one," she said, glancing at her daughter. "Leaving an old boyfriend to clutter future relationships is investing in trouble.
~ Kim Harrison
Look at yourself right now. You're half dead from blood loss, and you're out shopping. These disguises look great, but that's all they are: thin sheets of maybe standing between you and trouble.
~ Kim Harrison
I didn't like this. I didn't like this at all. I had been worried about Al trashing a bar. What if he showed up here amid Cincy's finest citizens and its most helpless orphans? I'd be lynched.
~ Kim Harrison
But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
And this is a very great gift; this, in the end, is what we think love gives, which is to say meaning. Because there is no very obvious meaning to be found in the universe, as far as we can tell. But a consciousness that cannot discern a meaning in existence is in trouble, very deep trouble, for at that point there is no organizing principle, no end to the halting problems, no reason to live, no love to be found. No: meaning is the hard problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
A kind of bolt-hole, you mean. To escape to if there's trouble." "Exactly. I think there are people in these transnationals who want Mars terraformed just as quickly as possible, by any means necessary.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia.
~ Kresley Cole
it's foolish to borrow trouble.
~ L. Frank Baum
Doesn't Mr. Allan preach magnificent sermons? Mrs. Lynde says he is improving every day and the first thing we know some city church will gobble him up and then we'll be left and have to turn to and break in another green peacher. But I don't see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla? I think it would be better just to enjoy Mr. Allan while we have him.
~ L. M. Montgomery
The trouble with Islam is deeply rooted in its teachings. Islam is not only a religion. Islam (is) also a political ideology that preaches violence and applies its agenda by force.
~ Wafa Sultan
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
~ Norman Vincent Peale