Quotes on Trouble

Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? Burn houses?

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Authority figures always attract trouble

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.