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Quotes About Trouble

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
~ John Michael Hayes
A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble.
~ John P. Kotter
A useful rule of thumb: Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a reaction that signifies both understanding and interest, you are in for trouble. Error
~ John P. Kotter
When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach our children to emulate people who live unbalanced lives, and when we define huge sections of the population as subservient to an elite minority, we ask for trouble. And we get it.
~ John Perkins
Put the ballast of biblical truth in the belly of our little boats, lest the crashing waves of calamity of these changing times cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble
~ John Piper
Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.
~ John R. Erickson
Anything that can possibly go wrong, does
~ John Sack
Whenever a college athletic program got itself in trouble with the law - big trouble - the NCAA usually steered clear, sticking to how many minutes a week student-athletes are allowed to stretch, the distance they can travel in a car with an alumnus, and whether they are allowed to put cream cheese or jam on their free breakfast bagel. (They are not).
~ John U. Bacon
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, the trouble is I don't know which half.
~ John Wanamaker
Young fella, if you're lookin' for trouble I'll accommodate ya
~ John Wayne
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
~ John Wayne
But when people are used to believing a thing is such-and-such a way, and the preachers want them to believe that that's the way it is; it's trouble you get, not thanks, for upsetting their ideas.
~ John Wyndham
He's a civilized, liberal-minded man - with the usual trouble of liberal-minded men; that they think others are, too. He has an interested, inquiring mind. He has never grasped that the average mind when it encounters something new is scared, and says: "Better smash it, or suppress it, quick." Well, he's just had another demonstration of the average mind at work.
~ John Wyndham
You always find that, Mary. When the kid's in trouble, there's trouble at home.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.
~ Elizabeth Warren
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there will be no security for the transgressor of God's law. Angels cannot then protect those who are disregarding one of the divine precepts. [257]
~ Ellen G. White
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
~ Ellen Glasgow
The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler
~ Ellen Raskin
What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles — what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.
~ Emil Cioran
La el acas?, Dumnezeu neavând ce p?zi, de necaz È™i de urât, pustieÈ™te gr?dinile omului.
~ Emil Cioran
For the victim of anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. His reaction to the one is the same as to the other: both trouble him equally.
~ Emil M. Cioran
birth, source of every infirmity, every disaster.
~ Emil M. Cioran