Trouble Quotes

• For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Beauty
  • Pride
  • Trouble

• 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
  • Business
  • Confusion
  • Abundance

• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Kindness
  • Pay
  • Doctor

• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Suffering
  • Trouble

• I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Kind

• Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Politician

• I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Never
  • Trouble
  • Invention

• Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

  

  Epictetus
  • Road
  • Trouble
  • Contentment

• If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To that you were called.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Road
  • Christ
  • Kingdom Of God

• All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.

  

  Sallust
  • Believe
  • Gods
  • Labor

• Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Character
  • Voice
  • Heard

• Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actor
  • Jobs
  • Opportunities

• One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Child
  • Better
  • Telling

• The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

  

  Will Durant
  • Fear
  • Trouble
  • Minds

• Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • God
  • Power
  • Hope

• We should embrace what makes us different, our different styles, our creativity. You should wear whatever seems true to you. If that means wearing a tux, if that means wearing a short dress, a floor-length dress, or whatever the case is - do what feels right to you. Try not to get in trouble though!

  

  Winnie Harlow
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Mean

• I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Trouble
  • Days
  • Concerts

• I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.

  

  Paul Haggis
  • Things
  • Write
  • Trouble

• The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Trying
  • Care
  • Trouble

• 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
  • Time
  • Business
  • Trouble

• It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • She
  • Door

• I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Friends
  • Trouble

• But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

  

  Tim Pratt
  • Information
  • Knowing
  • Magpies

• What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

  

  William Thomas Stead
  • Trouble
  • Messages

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