Quotes on Trouble

When the primary people who have influence and power in our communities are not even really allowed to educate you on who to vote for and against, we're in trouble.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our ecologic crisis can be expected from them alone. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not. We must rethink and refeel our nature and destiny.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.