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Quotes About Trouble

Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.
~ Catherine Cookson
The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn't make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and an artist draws what he sees and feels and thinks. But they tried to confiscate the drawings anyway and
~ Chaim Potok
Reg was never going to ace the Exams, not in a millennium. In fact, he didn't even bother to take them. He was the sort of kindly, dreamy boy who is prevailed upon by whim and instinct, and if he sometimes found trouble, it was always the charming kind, such as when a dog gets his muzzle stuck in a jar of peanut butter.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
You never really said anything about what you Koreans believe in she said. Staying out of trouble, I said.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Don't go looking for trouble; it's already looking for you.
~ Charlaine Harris
We both knew there would be new problems to face, but there wasn't any need to talk about future trouble. Trouble always came at its own pace.
~ Charlaine Harris
That's another fine mess you've gotten me into.
~ Oliver Hardy
Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
~ Stan Laurel
There are so many great messages in 'Good Trouble.' I'm just excited to be a part of it.
~ Noah Centineo
Messi always gets us out of trouble, and we're not going to apologise for having him.
~ Ernesto Valverde
I'm always up to no good, messing about.
~ Jesse Lingard
I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
~ Don Rickles
The amount of players who get into trouble in the NFL is a very small minority, but they are the ones who make the headlines.
~ Pat McAfee
I had some sort of ability and knew that I needed to work hard, to dedicate myself to the game. I sacrificed a lot. But maybe golf kept me out of trouble. Some of the guys who lived my life minus the golf have certainly been in trouble.
~ Justin Rose
Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?
~ Thomas Hardy
Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with trouble
~ Thomas Hardy
It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.
~ Thomas Hardy
In the worst attacks of trouble there appears to be always a superficial film of consciousness which is left disengaged and open to the notice of trifles, and Bathsheba was faintly amused at the boy's method, till he too passed on.
~ Thomas Hardy
But the love that ends with either suffering or death is not worth the trouble it gives us. And if it must dread death and all suffering, it will inevitably bring us little joy and very much sorrow.
~ Thomas Merton
Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The built-in excuse has become as standard in discussions of black crime as it is unsubstantiated, except by peer consensus among the intelligentsia. The phrase "troubled youth" is a common example of the unsubstantiated but built-in excuse, since those who use that phrase usually feel no need to offer any specific evidence about the specific individuals they are talking about, who may be creating big trouble for others, while enjoying themselves in doing so.
~ Thomas Sowell
Finally the little flat spoons lay still on the glass plates. Hennie looked rather exhausted, but she pulled on her white gloves again. She had some trouble with her diamond wrist-watch; it got in her way.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Here's a nice Irish saying for you: May neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and Heaven accept you.
~ Kathryn Shay
Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.
~ Keigo Higashino