Georgiana Burne-Jones Quotes

It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

Georgiana Burne-Jones

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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Go

• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Escaping

• The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Children
  • Trouble

• I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Trouble

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Trouble

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Bear

• If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

  

  James Woolsey
  • Government
  • Trouble
  • Do Nothing

• Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Effect
  • Device

• I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Trouble
  • Guitar
  • Fame

• The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Running
  • Fall
  • Trouble

• Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Trouble

• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Free
  • Poetry
  • Trouble

• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • People
  • Different
  • Trouble

• I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Trouble
  • Ends
  • Meeting

• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Powerful

• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Words
  • Support
  • Trouble

• I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Wish
  • Rock
  • Trouble

• When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Business
  • Food
  • Trouble

• I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Reading
  • Trouble
  • Known

• A couple must agree on the following topics: 1) Do they want kids? 2) Do they want a dog? 3) Do they want sex? 4) Do they want sleep? (If they answer yes to 3 and 4, then they must answer no to 1.) And finally, 5) Who mixes the cocktails before they both don the sexy rubber gloves and clean the toilet?

  

  E. Jean Carroll
  • Kids
  • Sleep
  • Couple

• One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Music
  • Free
  • Play

• Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards.

  

  Georgiana Burne-Jones
  • Trouble
  • Device
  • Payment