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Quotes About Trouble

If you get into trouble, give a shout." "We'll be fine," Gladys said. Famous last words, Zane thought.
~ Susan Mallery
Unfortunately, you're going to have to face the consequences of what happened. Your friends got you into trouble, and you're going to have to pay the price for that. You knew it was wrong to take the clothes, but you did it, anyway." She
~ Susan Mallery
If you get into trouble, give a shout." "We'll be fine," Gladys said. Famous last words, Zane thought, wishing he could believe them. All the novices looked as if they could be blown off their mounts by a stiff wind. He didn't usually allow for second-guessing, but he was about to make an exception. Deciding to go forward with the cattle drive had been about the stupidest idea he'd ever had.
~ Susan Mallery
Robert was a typical guy. He had trouble simply listening and mostly wanted to fix the problem.
~ Susan Mallery
You have seven writers in your basement?" Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don't usually make much trouble.
~ Susan Wiggs
Between the covers, characters were living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love, finding trouble, working out their problems. Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.
~ Susan Wiggs
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
~ Josh Billings
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
~ Josh Billings
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
~ Josh Billings
From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.
~ Joy Kogawa
When we the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.
~ Joyce Maynard
When was the moment her obsession took hold, to spare her children the pain of loss. As if any parent could do that. As if it would be a good thing, if she could...The best you could do was to raise your children in such a way that when trouble found them-- as it would--they'd be able to survive it.
~ Joyce Maynard
a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.
~ Judith Butler
Oh, good Lord Jesus, I prayed, preserve me from this joking of God. Grief and trouble were all bad enough. But joking? It seemed altogether unfair, to me.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.
~ Judy Garland
Bürgerbeteiligung war ein Name für die Einmischung von Leuten, die keine Ahnung hatten, jede Menge Ärger verursachten und am Ende darüber meckerten, dass sich alles in die Länge zog.
~ Juli Zeh
And then, well . . . He might have slept for a bit. He rather hoped he was sleeping, because he was quite certain he'd seen a six-foot rabbit hopping through his bedchamber, and if that wasn't a dream, they were all in very big trouble. Although really, it wasn't the rabbit that was so dangerous as much as the giant carrot he was swinging about like a mace. That carrot would feed an entire village.
~ Julia Quinn
On the way over, however, it slid off the shovel and onto Henry's shoes. Pity, that. She whirled around. He waited for her to burst out with, "You did that on purpose!" but she kept silent, motionless except for a slight narrowing of her eyes. Then, with a flick of her ankle, the slop spattered onto his trousers. She smirked, waiting for him to say, "You did that on purpose!" but he also remained silent. Then he smiled at her, and she knew she was in trouble.
~ Julia Quinn
Maybe this, then, was the definition of love. When you wanted someone, needed her, adored her still, even when you were utterly furious and quite ready to tie her to the bed just to keep her from going out and making more trouble.
~ Julia Quinn
I logged into my bank accounts, and they were all seized, all frozen. So that was a pretty clear indication that I was in big trouble.
~ Molly Bloom
Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.
~ Tony Rock
We're all getting in trouble on Twitter - just get off and use your Instagram.
~ Sean Baker