Trouble famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
-- A. E. Housman -
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
-- Abe Lemons -
The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
-- Adam Sandler -
Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.
-- Adele Faber -
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
-- Agnes Repplier -
To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.
-- Alan Dundes -
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.
-- Alan Turing -
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
-- Alan Watts -
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
-- Alice Hoffman -
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.
-- Alice Walker -
Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave
-- Amit Abraham -
If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.
-- Amy Dumas -
Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.
-- Amy Neftzger -
I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
Committing yourself to some kind of job that isn't committed to God is going to bring so much trouble into your life. It's not good and not something I would suggest that someone seek.
-- Angus T. Jones -
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
-- Ann Beattie -
I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
-- Anne Frank -
The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.
-- Anne Geddes -
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
-- Anne Monroe -
As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
-- Annette Funicello -
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
-- Aretha Franklin -
Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
-- Arlene Francis -
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
-- Arlene Francis -
Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero -
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
-- Avril Lavigne -
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
-- B. B. Warfield -
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
-- Babatunde Olatunji -
I don't seem able to do my best unless I'm behind or in trouble.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
-- Barbara Mertz -
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
-- Barbara Taylor Bradford -
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
-- Barbara Walters -
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
-- Barry McGuigan -
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
-- Bayard Rustin -
You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
The trouble was, my feelings for Patch weren't harmless.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
-- Ben Jonson -
...the art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about...
-- Berenice Abbott -
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.
-- Betty Hutton -
Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
-- Betty MacDonald -
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
-- Betty Smith -
If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.
-- Betty White -
There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
-- Bill Cosby -
But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
-- Bill Joy -
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
-- Bill Shankly -
...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...
-- Billy Collins -
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
-- Billy Graham -
I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.
-- Billy Joel -
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.
-- Bo -
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
-- Bob Woodward -
In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
The trouble is that we do not know whether it has delivered better outcomes or not in services. After more than a decade, the time is right now to carry out a study like this and see if devolution is delivering where it counts.
-- Brian Donohoe -
The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.
-- Brian Friel -
My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.
-- Brian Molko -
My trouble is I talk first and think later.
-- Brittany Murphy -
I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
-- Broderick Crawford -
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
-- Bruce Cockburn -
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.
-- Bruce Lee -
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 with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
-- Bum Phillips -
I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.
-- Busta Rhymes -
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
-- Camille Paglia -
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.
-- Carl Webb
