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Quotes About Trouble

The panic takes some to God, others to despair, some to charitable works, others to drink, some to emotional oblivion, others to a life where they hope that nothing serious will ever trouble them again.
~ Julian Barnes
Oh, God," he said softly to himself. "I knew you were trouble.
~ Julie Anne Long
Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on. Oh, for heaven's sake, she muttered. I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but— He wouldn't let her continue. A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month
~ Julie Garwood
Do you remember when Regan was in trouble? Alec asked. Of course I remember, Aiden said. She was being stalked, and you investigated. Once the nightmare was over, we were stuck with you.
~ Julie Garwood
This was a familiar feeling, for there were many places in the great forest where you could drink in its energy, become one with its ancient heart. When you were in trouble, you could find your way in these places.
~ Juliet Marillier
When trouble came, as the sisters feared it would, it didn't knock at the mahogany doors. Instead it waited, lying dormant inside heads and silent inside mouths until it passed, undetected, into the Club. And then it was too late.
~ Karen Abbott
But like all simple things, once you add the human element, all hell breaks loose.
~ Karen Hawkins
She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Well, it's got to be terrible
~ Karen MacInerney
These were the qualities that painted young me as smart and ambitious and young woman as trouble.
~ Karin Slaughter
Honestly, all the trouble Noah went to saving the animals two by two and now we're making handbags out of them. I
~ Karl Pilkington
Calamity was ordained for man.
~ Bill Vaughan
When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble
~ Laura Dern
In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.
~ Dave Barry
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
~ Anne Bronte
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
~ Vance Havner
A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
~ Chinua Achebe
When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.
~ Barbara Mertz
By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
~ Livy
I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
~ Ralph Stanley
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
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
~ John Sterling
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
~ Phyllis McGinley