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If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.
James Woolsey
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
Jennifer Egan
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
Thomas Carlyle
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
Shirley Temple
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.
Thomas à Kempis
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
Sarah Vaughan
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
Jane Jacobs
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Edith Wharton
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.
Jesse Ventura
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
Kenneth Grahame
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
Terry Eagleton
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin Pierce Adams
When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
Daniel Radcliffe
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
When posh boys get into trouble they sack the servants.
Dennis Skinner
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