Trouble Quotes

• It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Good
  • Always
  • Trouble

• The first half we got into foul trouble really fast, really early. And that kind of set the tone for the game.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Trouble
  • Half
  • Foul

• There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Feelings
  • Enough
  • Anticipation

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Fame
  • Riches

• If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Ready

• They also had nightmares and flashbacks. They also alternated between occasional bouts of explosive rage and long periods of being emotionally shut down. Most of them had great difficulty getting along with other people and had trouble maintaining meaningful relationships.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Relationships
  • Emotionally
  • Nightmares

• Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Trouble
  • Jump
  • Motorcycle

• My favorite story about O'Connor - one of them - is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately - that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im - inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.' John O'Connor's watching this said,`I want to tell you I'm delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Faith
  • Audience
  • Conference

• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Poor

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trouble
  • Republicans
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Will

• How often have we ourselves said or have heard others exclaim in times of crisis or trouble, 'I just don't know where to turn'? If we will just use it, there is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Guidance
  • Exclaim

• He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

  

  Eddie Shaw
  • Art
  • Boxing
  • Poem

• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Mind
  • Business

• I have trouble getting an autograph from him. He's really guarded about it, so don't take it personal.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • Trouble
  • Personal
  • Autograph

• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Methods
  • Conquered

• It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Alive
  • Tools
  • Employ

• Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Education
  • Change

• The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.

  

  Charles Luckman
  • America
  • Teeth
  • Spaces

• Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

  

  Euripides
  • Trouble
  • Dead
  • Dishonor

• The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Trouble
  • Boxing
  • Sadness

• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  

  Epictetus
  • Challenge
  • Trouble
  • Caretake

• Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Men
  • Action
  • Son

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