Quotes About Trouble

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.' Don't worry. We're with you.

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He [Colonel George Scrutton] always, like the wise man a hard life had made him, allowed trouble to come to him, instead of hastening to meet it, as is a woman's way.

But people take such trouble with their faults and go to such lengths to make them fascinating to others that it is really very unkind to overlook them,' protested Sidney. 'They would much rather be laughed at on their own merits than politely ignored as members of a community.

The word preacher comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?

my father in law] told me I was nothing but trouble. I felt the truth of that. I really am nothing. . . . Nothing with a body. I create a kind of displacement around myself as I pass through the world, which can fairly be called trouble. This is a mystery, I believe. . . . It's why I keep to myself. When I can.

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

An old fire will make a dark husk for itself and settle in on its core, as in the case of this planet. I believe the same metaphor may describe the human individual, as well. Perhaps Gilead. Perhaps civilization. Prod a little and the sparks will fly. I don't know whether the verse put a blessing on the fireflies or the fireflies put a blessing on the verse, or if both of them together put a blessing on trouble, but I have loved them both a good deal ever

Magic can happen in a car, a warm, intimate magic born of being in an enclosed, particular place and, simultaneously, being nowhere, passing throu. No one leaves her troubles behind, not really, but you can believe you have. You can believe you're in an inbetween space where trouble can't find you. . . .

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Marriages are made in heaven which is why they cause so much trouble on earth.

Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there's the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble.

Well,' said Mrs. Erdleigh, speaking kindly, as if to a child who has proposed a game inevitably associated with the breakage of china, 'I know trouble will come of it if we do.

It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.

At first Widmerpool and I were unable to grasp the root of the trouble, partly because Monsieur Lundquist's lobbing technique was sufficiently common for none of the rest of us specially to have noticed it that afternoon: partly because at that age I was not yet old enough to be aware of the immense rage that can be secreted in the human heart by cumulative minor irritation.

But Johnny hasn't got twelve children, Tom." "One doesn't have a cousin in trouble every day," said Toogood. "And then you see there's something very pretty in the case. It's quite a pleasure getting it up.

Yes; — if there were children. And it will come back to her if he dies first. But mad people never do die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever. It'll all go to some cousin of his that nobody ever saw

Believe me, dear child, a state of virgin maidenhood is the happiest lot for woman; but beauty betrays us to love and love is the father of trouble.

And he has a much higher chivalry than that of the old poets. They, or their heroes, watched their women because they did not want to have trouble about them, — shut them up in castles, kept them in ignorance, and held them as far as they could out of harm's way.

She did like reading, and especially the reading of poetry, — though even in this she was false and pretentious, skipping, pretending to have read, lying about books, and making up her market of literature for outside admiration at the easiest possible cost of trouble