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Quotes About Trouble

Oh, no, Misto C –, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!
~ Mark Twain
But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.
~ Mark Vonnegut
I'm covered in shit!
~ Markus Zusak
Il n'y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit!
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.
~ Arthur Miller
They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
~ Arthur Ransome
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is just this characteristic way in which the brute gives itself up entirely to the present moment that contributes so much to the delight we take in our domestic pets. They are the present moment personified, and in some respects they make us feel the value of every hour that is free from trouble and annoyance, which we, with our thoughts and preoccupations, mostly disregard.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ammu, Chako said, his voice steady and deliberately casual, is it at all possible for you to prevent your washed-up cynicism from completely coloring everything? Silence filled the car like a saturated sponge. 'Washed-up' cut like a knife through a soft thing. The sun shone with a shuddering sigh. This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
~ Arundhati Roy
The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics, according to Rahel, was the amount of trouble they took over their armour and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.
~ Arundhati Roy
It's getting that bad again.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.
~ Stephen Colbert
I am reminded of the words of that great American patriot Thomas Paine: 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
~ Stephen Coonts
You're on the list. If you had anything to do with this piece of shit then you are in trouble.
~ Stephen Fry
triskaidekaphobic.
~ Stephen Fry
I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.
~ Stephen King
The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time.
~ Stephen King
and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.
~ Stephen King
She was crazy but he needed her. Oh I am in so much trouble he thought, and stared blindly up at the ceiling as the droplets of sweat began to gather on his forehead again.
~ Stephen King
When you need Stayfree MaxiPads to absorb the expectorants produced by your insulted body, you are in serious fucking trouble.
~ Stephen King
Because it's trouble, and it's in our road. We'll get there in time. No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.
~ Stephen King
And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
~ Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life