Trouble Quotes
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She was convinced that men didn’t give a damn about other people’s feelings and that they got away with whatever they wanted. Women couldn’t be trusted either. They were too weak to stand up for themselves, and they’d sell their bodies to get men to take care of them. If you were in trouble, they wouldn’t lift a finger to help you. This worldview manifested itself in the way Marilyn approached her colleagues at work: She was suspicious of the motives of anyone who was kind to her and called them on the slightest deviation from the nursing regulations. As for herself: She was a bad seed, a fundamentally toxic person who made bad things happen to those around her.
Bessel van der Kolk -
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
John Lennon The Beatles
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I went looking for trouble, and I found it.
Charles Ponzi -
The U.N. actually took a lot of trouble to protect him...
Brian Urquhart -
The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
Alfred Sheinwold -
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg -
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
Epictetus -
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis
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Trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.
George Eliot -
It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.
Michael Moorcock -
The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.
Nella Larsen -
Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.
Michael Kelly -
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates -
Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.
Ezra Furman
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When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming
David Berman -
Although I remain uncertain about God or any particular religion, I believe in karma. What goes around, comes around. How you live your life, the respect that you give others and the mountain, and how you treat people in general will come back to you in kindred fashion. I like to talk about what I call the Karma National Bank. If you give up the summit to help rescue someone who’s in trouble, you’ve put a deposit in that bank. And sometime down the road, you may need to make a big withdrawal.
Ed Viesturs -
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
Sarah Addison Allen -
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
Seneca the Younger -
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach -
I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
Stuart Woods
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I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.
Trick Daddy -
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William Penn -
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
Seneca the Younger -
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal