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Quotes About Trouble

The trouble was that one's mind did not work quite rationally when one was being kissed by the only man one had ever loved, and the man one had loved so totally that no one had ever been able to take his place.
~ Mary Balogh
Damn him! Damn Robert Denning, Marquess of Hetherington. How could she be expected to sleep peacefully knowing that he was under the same roof? Was he sleeping dreamlessly? Or was he restless too, troubled perhaps by his conscience? He did not appear to have one, but perhaps it troubled him in his sleep. The thought was somehow comforting.
~ Mary Balogh
You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.
~ Mary Doria Russell
guess—You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
~ Mary Doria Russell
I heard about her from one of the top librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times. They said she was trouble, but good trouble. Good trouble.
~ Maureen Johnson
You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue—a highly intellectual virtue—out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.
~ Ayn Rand
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.
~ Ayn Rand
On the verbal portion I missed four questions, all having to do with choosing a word in a series that doesn't belong. I have always had trouble with that line of questioning. Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors - however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Church was his trouble," she said. "It started him off on the wrong foot.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
And the Tory Party. That's why I said I felt trouble was brewing. Arthur Balfour is attempting to sit on the fence, but that won't do him much good. He may well find himself out of 10 Downing Street sooner than he expects.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
I was taken aback by his gumption. He sounded more petulant than afraid. I realized this kid didn't understand the kind of trouble he was in. If he didn't tell me what I wanted to know I would have to adjust his attitude.
~ Barry Eisler
Boys grow up to be men . And it's men who cause all the trouble. They're the ones who shed the blood and poison the earth.
~ Stephen King
A man's mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time.
~ Stephen King
People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
~ Stephen King
Thinking that if a person did begin considering supernatural possibilities, that person would no longer be able to think of himself as a completely sane person, and thinking about one's sanity was maybe not a good thing. It was like thinking about your heartbeat: if you had to go there, you might already be in trouble.
~ Stephen King
The way we see the problem, is the problem.
~ Stephen R. Covey
a term employed by law enforcement and mental health experts when trying to identify dangerous students or others before they become murderers. The term is "leakage," which means that signs of trouble or potential violence can leak out of kids as warning signals in advance of bloodshed.
~ Stephen Singular
I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days.
~ Steve Martin
Do you know that months now go by and the military isn't paid? Soldiers and sailors, who were once gods, are now treated like trash," said Mirnov. "When a government starts doing that, they are asking for trouble." He
~ Steve Martini
Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have enough trouble predicting the past.")
~ Steven Pinker
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
~ Vincent Van Gogh