Trouble Quotes
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The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.
Cat Deeley
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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
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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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I shall give you lovely food; and Papa says that lovely food is the one thing that ever really makes a man give himself the trouble to rise up and call his wife blessed.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg
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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
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It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Catherine Deneuve
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
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Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
Edmund Vance Cooke
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No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
Bram Stoker
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The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.
Catherine the Great
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A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.
George V. Higgins
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
Stanley Kubrick
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.
Roz Chast
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I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas
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The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.
Ben Aaronovitch
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Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
Sarah Addison Allen
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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
Tony Abbott
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Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.
Alexander MacLaren
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
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For whatever reason we were obviously in some foul trouble. I don't want to talk about the fouls anymore.
Dan Monson
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
Todd Solondz