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

• Trouble
• Device
• Payment

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• 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

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• 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

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Sometimes
  • Singing
  • Feels

• 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

• I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Rest
  • 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

• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Technology
  • Rock
  • Balance

• Whether you are rich or poor, it's nice to have money, but money is never the answer. Money can get you in trouble, too. Look at Martha Stewart!

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Money
  • Trouble
  • Answer

• Sometimes we just go back to the hotel and sleep because we're really tired. Other times we'll be really hyped up and want to go out and do something -- basically make our own fun. Because we're all teenagers -- and you know what teenagers get up to -- we influence the older people to do teenage stunts, which is pretty funny. I won't mention any names, because we'll probably get in trouble, but we took this guy egging... like we were egging all these houses. It was too funny. Just being a hooligan, being an idiot really -- but nothing illegal.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Fun
  • Sleep
  • Trouble

• As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • People
  • I Think
  • Transactions

• I have the knack of easing scruples.

  

  Moliere
  • Knack
  • Scruples

• 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