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Quotes About Trouble

She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.
~ Ross MacDonald
I felt like a lonely cat, an aging tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory, and would be till I rolled in the last gutter.
~ Ross MacDonald
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that`s your nature, but don`t lend it to your neighbors.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Surely he'd have no trouble finding a replacement for someone like me." "You may like to tell yourself that, but it's only an excuse for not giving a damn about his feelings. Anyway, enough of that.
~ Ry? Murakami
To go beyond Hegel is a miracle, but to get beyond Abraham is the easiest thing of all. I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I cannot understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear. All
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Really?' says Jason excitedly. 'Sure. But no more kicking the ball into the tree, OK?' she says sternly. 'Or there'll be BIG trouble.' Jason grins.'OK,' he
~ Sally Rippin
Nothing but trouble outside my head; nothing but miracles inside it.
~ Salman Rushdie
All of us are in two stories at the same time, said the sandwich lady. Life and Times. There is our own personal story, and the bigger story of what's happening around us. When both are in trouble simultaneously, when the crisis inside you intersects with the crisis outside you, things get a little crazy.
~ Salman Rushdie
I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head beneath these letters RIP, and close my eyes, according to our family's old practice of falling asleep in times of trouble, and hope to awaken, renewed and joyful, into a better time.
~ Salman Rushdie
Trouble in a marriage," he later wrote, "is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.
~ Salman Rushdie
Trouble in a marriage is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.
~ Salman Rushdie
Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.
~ Salman Rushdie
The trouble with the English is their history happened overseas, so they don't know what it means. The secret if a dinner party in London is to outnumber the English, if they're outnumbered they behave, otherwise you're in trouble.
~ Salman Rushdie
That's how it was when I was ten: nothing but trouble outside my head, nothing but miracles inside it.
~ Salman Rushdie
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
~ Thomas Paine
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
~ Eric Thomas
If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Punctuality, said Monte Cristo, is the politeness of kings, according to one of your sovereigns, I think; but it is not the same with travellers. However, I hope you will excuse the two or three seconds I am behindhand; five hundred leagues are not to be accomplished without some trouble, and especially in France, where, it seems, it is forbidden to beat the postilions.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Un capitaliste chagrin est comme les comètes, il présage toujours quelque grand malheur au monde.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The money truck caught on fire and some of the money was burned, but we took what we could and later I made it a payday for everyone. I still have some of those burnt notes and someday I will cash them in for some good ones. The
~ Ali Ahmad Jalali
If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.
~ Alice Hoffman
Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.
~ Alice Hoffman
Vincent gave him the twenty. "You don't think you might be looking for trouble?" Levi thanked Vincent for the loan, but laughed at the question. "Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.
~ Alice Hoffman