Quotes About Trouble

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

I smoked, I drank, I skipped classes, I snuck out, I took drugs, I stole quarts of ice cream for my dorm by breaking into the kitchen storerooms, I made out with my boyfriends in the library basement, I hitchhiked into town and down I-91, and when caught, I weaseled out of all of it . . . There is no need to switch on the fog machine of ambiguity around these facts: I was still a problem child.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Seems like those boys of mine get into three times as much trouble when school is out. I still don't understand how you get them to mind without a switch or at least a primed rifle over your arm." He reached over to help himself to the doughnuts.

Don't go looking for trouble, it will find you soon enough without you shouting out an invitation.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.