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Quotes About Trouble

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
~ Anaximenes
I miss my room. I miss my bed. I miss being a little punk with no care in the world, giving two fucks about it, just looking for trouble. I guess I found it.
~ Andrea Portes
You see, my conscious mind is really quite good at squashing down any unwanted thought and burying it under the rug. But my unconscious mind, my dreaming mind, well, that's where the trouble is.
~ Andrea Portes
Well, we don't have to work often for this to be much trouble." The Padrone smiled. "Besides, even Dante described the Florentines as greedy, envious, and arrogant people. It is good to keep a bit of distance from this city.
~ Andreas Eschbach
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
A catastrophe is an opportunity.
~ Andrew Durbin
I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.
~ Anthony Holden
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
~ Helen Keller
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
~ George Clooney
Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
~ Lee Child
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
~ Oscar Hijuelos
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
~ Ben Bernanke
How you define a problem shapes how you address it.
~ John O. Brennan
Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.
~ Rob Gronkowski
Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.
~ Margaret Trudeau
And you're here too? I'm so sorry you had to get dragged into this mess. I know you didn't ask for any of this trouble." "It doesn't matter," said Adrian, smiling. He rested a hand on my shoulder. "Some things are worth the trouble.
~ Richelle Mead
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by to-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
~ Rick Perlstein
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble—whether instituting open housing, civilian complaint review boards, or sex education programs—when they presume that a reform is an inevitable concomitant of progress. It is then that they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureacratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.
~ Rick Perlstein
Dad, I'm in an airport with armed police. How much trouble can I cause?" Mum's fingers tightened around her book. "This is a terrible idea," she muttered.
~ Rob Lloyd Jones
some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.
~ Rob Sheffield
I'm breathing . . . Are you breathing too? . . . It's nice, isn't it? It isn't difficult to keep alive, friends just don't -make trouble-or if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that's expected. Well, I don't need to tell you that. Good night. If we should bump into one another, recognize me
~ Robert Bolt
The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.
~ Robert Brault
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
~ Robert Carlyle
Martyrdom serves no purpose—better to live on in an oppressive world, even to thrive in it. Meanwhile find a way to express your ideas subtly for those who understand you. Laying your pearls before swine will only bring you trouble.
~ Robert Greene