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Quotes About Trouble

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.
~ KEN ALSTAD
The bad wheel creaks the most.
~ KEN ALSTAD
What we can say with some certainty is that American young people have enormous trouble putting faith into words. It was unclear whether the young people we interviewed in the NSYR were unfamiliar with religious language or just uncomfortable using it in public (a number of youth we talked to thought talking about religion at school was illegal). The difficulty escalated when the conversation turned to particulars (the name "Jesus" was especially absent from our interviews).
~ Kenda Creasy Dean
I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.
~ Buzz Aldrin
In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations....
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
In hard times you don't share your secrets and you sure don't borrow trouble.
~ C.J. Box
The power of this approach is its efficiency. You spend the least amount of time with the questions that you understand the best, and you spend the most amount of time with the questions that cause you the most trouble. You also have a definite endpoint. There is no need to wonder how much longer you should continue reviewing. Once you finish a round without any more check marks, you're finished, and not a minute is wasted.
~ Cal newport
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Well, they're going to elect that Superman Hoover, and he's going to have some trouble. He's going to have to spend money, but it won't be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don't know anything about money. [To his Secret Service man, Edmund Starling]
~ Calvin Coolidge
Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie
~ Candace Bushnell
Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
~ Gavin DeGraw
Men. They were nothing but trouble anyway. I mean, really, look where the men in my life had gotten me. Handcuffed, fingerprinted, jailed…then handcuffed again! That's it, I washed my hands of the whole lot of them. In fact, I was actually looking forward to flying home, sitting in my cozy studio and spending the evening alone with Joanie, Chachi, and the Keebler elves. Now those were my kind of men.
~ Gemma Halliday
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
~ Gene Tierney
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
~ George Clooney
yep Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.
~ Ilona Andrews
When people had trouble of a magic kind, the kind that cops couldn't or wouldn't handle, they called the Mercenary Guild. If the job happened to fall into my territory, the Guild then called me.
~ Ilona Andrews
Actually, I would be very grateful for a chance to clean up." Mad Rogan touched his forehead. His fingers came away bloody and stained with soot. Suddenly he looked young and disarming, like one of my cousins when they were in trouble. "And a bite of food if you could spare some." If he laid it on any thicker, he'd be ready to audition for Oliver. My mother couldn't possibly buy this.
~ Ilona Andrews
How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners.
~ Iris Murdoch
Partly, I still felt something of the sheer unholy excitement which I had experienced initially at the thought of a friend (especially this one) in trouble.
~ Iris Murdoch
To the philosophical mind, these items might seem scarcely worth any great trouble to acquire. Yet no one, however philosophical, could give up those privileges, once acquired, without a pang. That was the point.
~ Isaac Asimov
Naturally, trouble makes for greater drama than does happiness, and it asks for more in the way of human response
~ Isaac Asimov
Being an interstellar trouble shooter wouldn't be so bad … if I could shoot the trouble!
~ Isaac Asimov