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Quotes About Trouble

If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I'm not in trouble, am I?" "No. Why would you be in trouble?" Because lately, Sadie was almost always in trouble. It was impossible to be eleven, with a sick sister, and for people to find your conduct beyond reproach. She was always saying the wrong thing, or being too loud, or demanding too much (time, love, food), even though she had not demanded more than what had been freely given before. "No reason.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The profundity of this struck Sadie in this moment—yes, what greater enemy does one have than oneself? And wasn't she to blame for all of this more than Dov? He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
By then I was thirty years old, and I'd learned that courage in a bottle could get you through all kinds of doors, and all kinds of trouble, and a lot of dead-end nights alone.
~ Gail Caldwell
Only once have I had the courage to ask Matsu what he felt about his country's victories in China. He was in the kitchen reading a magazine, as his radio blared from his room. He looked up at me and simply said, "Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Japan is like a young woman who thinks too much of herself. She's bound to get herself into trouble.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
~ Garrison Keillor
We have trouble overcoming the four factors—flawed beliefs, insufficient experience, a passive stance, and a concrete reasoning style—that emerged from the contrasting twins study.
~ Gary Klein
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
~ Gary Numan
Les Enfants Terribles [The Terrible Children].
~ Gavarni
Brian Andreas Promise #1: Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.
~ Brian Andreas
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
~ Brian Eno
6There is power in the house of the righteous,[226] But the house of the wicked Is filled with trouble, No matter how much money they have. 7When wisdom speaks Revelation-knowledge is released,[227]
~ Brian Simmons
Had not enough gone wrong?
~ Brom
Sometimes, I overheard my aunts discussing these blighted destinies; and Aunt Ruth would hug me, as if to forestall my following in their footsteps. Yet, from the way she lingered over such words as 'Xanadu' or 'Samarkand' or the 'wine-dark sea,' I think she also felt the trouble of the 'wanderer in her soul.
~ Bruce Chatwin
I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
~ Bruce Willis
The trouble started one morning when there was a fog.
~ Herman Wouk
Prophet of evil,' he cried, 'never have you said a word to my advantage. It is always trouble that you revel in foretelling.
~ Homer
You forget where you are," he said. "What right do you have to come here and cause trouble, and then tell us to speak your language?
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big Ã¢â'¬â€œ bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming
I am uncertain whether our civilization at this turn of the millennium is cursed by too much or too little belief, whether people like Bernard and June cause the trouble, or people like me.
~ Ian Mcewan
But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a visceral dread, a helpless disgust as palpable as seasickness.
~ Ian Mcewan