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Quotes About Trouble

But then the trouble begins. Jesus, not content to quit when he is ahead, points out that the gifts of God do not come automatically to those who attend the Temple And this is really too much! … The idea that the message is for worthless outsiders rather than us! The very notion that unbelievers will be the recipients of God's favor and we will not! —Robert McAfee Brown
~ Justo L. González
I really don't understand why people go on about how wonderful the truth is. In my experience, all it does is make trouble.
~ K.J. Parker
When Pais explained his mission, Einstein chuckled loudly, and then said, "The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government. . . . [T]he problem was simple: All Oppenheimer needed to do was go to Washington, tell the officials that they were fools, and then go home.
~ Kai Bird
There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
~ Dan Webster
Brexit is a disaster, Italy won't be real about its debt, and the European Union is in trouble.
~ John Layfield
I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
~ Don Rickles
I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.
~ Dillian Whyte
Joe Biden is not the first person in his family to have gone to college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise, no matter how much the lie gets him in trouble.
~ Mollie Hemingway
The remedy is worse than the disease.
~ Francis Bacon
The police," he said. "You can't carry firearms in England without a licence. Just like dogs. You'll be getting into trouble before you know where you are. Now look here, ma'am," he went on, with increasing confidence, "you'd far better make a clean breast of it." "A clean breast? What do you mean? Why do you pester me like this?" she cried, with sudden terror.
~ Francis Brett Young
I think," he said, "that you may be the kind of dog who bites because she is chained up." He expected her to laugh, or to flash out at him, or to do both. She did not look up, but with a melancholy kind of trouble in her eyes. "A lovely analogy: I thank you," she said. "But what if I am the kind of dog who bites because it pleases her?" "I don't believe it," said Smith.
~ Francis Spufford
that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.
~ Frank Delaney
Talent is liquified trouble.
~ Frank Gehry
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself — nature does it for you.
~ Frank Wilczek
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Value networks are needed to succeed within a field. That's why we form them. And that is, as you may have guessed, where all the trouble starts.
~ Frans Johansson
He that seeks trouble never misses.
~ French proverb
I'm sorry, young caretaker," Lomo said. "By coming to Wyrmroost, you inherited calamitous trouble. And look what you do!" "Flip over my rocking chair?" "You stand and fight! While a nation of ancient adults cowers behind policies of appeasement.
~ Brandon Mull
When Hugo climbed out of the back, the dogs ran away yelping. Apparently they didn't require magic milk to sense that the golem meant trouble.
~ Brandon Mull
you get into horrible trouble and desperately need me, I'll be much too busy with my own problems!
~ Brandon Mull
Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?" "I . . . had trouble concentrating." "So you came up on deck," Jasnah said, "to sketch pictures of young men working without their shirts on. You expected this to help your concentration?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Don't make trouble at the pub tonight, Wayne," the man intoned in response. "My temper is really short." "Temper?" Wayne said, passing him. "That's a funny name for it, mate, but if the ladies like you givin' silly names to your body parts, I ain't gonna say nothin'.
~ Brandon Sanderson
When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You realize precisely how unfair it is to deal with you when you can fall back on heavenly messengers to talk you out of trouble?" "That's nothing," Wax said, "Ask me sometime about the conversation I had with god the last time I died.
~ Brandon Sanderson