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Quotes About Trouble

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.
~ Haruki Murakami
Phone calls in the dead of the night never brought good news.
~ Haruki Murakami
Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff and cramming our pockets full of it. Even now I can't figure out why we persisted in doing that. Maybe we mistook it for something else.
~ Haruki Murakami
He did know: he knew her right away, and he felt known by her, and that was where the trouble really began...She could have been exotic or worldly or a Valkyrie and it would have meant nothing to him. But that Alice saw him?that was a feeling Amos had never experienced before, and it felt like a revelation and also like a virus.
~ Haven Kimmel
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother?
~ David Shields
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
~ Bertolt Brecht
There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
~ Murray Walker
I was a political journalist for a long time. I wrote a book about Putin. I made all kinds of trouble.
~ Masha Gessen
I'm out here for opportunity and championship and a belt that spells my name, but on a bigger stage, my bigger goal, my mindset is to completely eliminate any doubt in some of the minds that, 'Hey I don't want to take my dream to WWE. Where I'm from, what I believe in, it could cause any trouble.'
~ Mustafa Ali
Growing up in a small town of two thousand people, there wasn't too many ways to get in trouble. But I found some. We got caught stealing green plums from this old lady's yard.
~ Archie Manning
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
~ Paloma Faith
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
~ Kate Christensen
Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That's why we must create a national registry of police misconduct and disciplinary actions.
~ Mike Espy
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
~ Slappy White
But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.
~ Sophie Jordan
The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand
~ Spanish proverb
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.
~ Stacy Aumonier
Like the castle in its corner In a medieval game I foresee terrible trouble And I stay here just the same.
~ Steely Dan
The trouble about Mr Mybug was that ordinary subjects, which are not usually associated with sex even by our best minds, did suggest sex to Mr Mybug, and he pointed them out and made comparisons and asked Flora what she thought about it all.
~ Stella Gibbons
I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.
~ Steve Young
In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.
~ Ron Paul
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
~ Sidney Howard
I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
~ Elaine Stritch
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
~ John Milton