Trouble Quotes

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may

Charles Dickens

Don't you think it's ironic that you have no idea what you're supposed to do, said Verily, and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?

Orson Scott Card

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Fritz Reiner

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

George Eliot

I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

Don Mattingly

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

William Davenant

A crisis is a close encounter of the truthful kind.

Guy Finley

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Neil Gaiman

What would Deftmenes be if we went around obeying orders all the time?' 'They might be ruling the Carpet,' said Pismire. 'Ha!' said Brocando, 'but the trouble about obeying orders is, it becomes a habit. And then everything depends on who's giving the orders.

Terry Pratchett

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. p. 108.

Bertrand Russell

Never meet trouble half-way.

John Ray

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

That's the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.

Orson Scott Card

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

Stefan Edberg

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Beaumont and Fletcher

When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Henry Ward Beecher