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Quotes About Trouble

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
~ Bible
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.
~ Helen Nielsen
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
~ Josh Billings
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
~ Winston Churchill
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
~ Henry Saint John
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.
~ Stephen Leacock
Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you.
~ African-American proverb
What's the problem?
~ J.D. Robb
Not only had the nefarious Candy Thief snatched her chocolate, he/she had taken the time and trouble to replace it with the actual item on the freaking menu. She had to respect that.
~ J.D. Robb
This was trouble--of the bury-your-dead variety.
~ J.R. Ward
Lassiter had been the wild card, and he had not lasted. Distracted by physical yearnings, he had gotten into epic trouble and been banished, lost to a destiny and destination of which Colin was only vaguely aware.
~ J.R. Ward
That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.
~ Jack Butler
Another way to determine the direction of the general market is to focus on how the leading stocks are performing. If the stocks that have been leading the bull market start breaking down, that is a major sign the market has topped. Another important factor to watch is the Federal Reserve discount rate. Usually, after the Fed raises the rate two or three times, the market runs into trouble.
~ Jack D. Schwager
this girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught me that message of pain, keep asking for it, for life
~ Jack Kerouac
A western kinsman of the sun, Dean. Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean's eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds—what did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.
~ Jack Kerouac
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
~ Adam DeVine
The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound.
~ Elmore Leonard
I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.
~ Peter DeLuise
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.
~ Chris Gethard
Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
~ Bobby Cox
If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
~ Naoto Kan
I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.
~ Eartha Kitt