Trouble Quotes - page 87

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that. (Hillary Clinton)
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. View quote
Les Dawson
Mike Stone was Portland's premier lawyer-if you were in deep, deep trouble. He took on clients other lawyers avoided-swim team coaches accused of child molestation, surgeons who had operated while three sheets to the wind, bank presidents caught embezzling millions...Just being defended by Stone was a sure sign that you were involved in something embarrassing or off-putting. View quote
Lis Wiehl
I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you. View quote
Tré Cool
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. View quote
Jeremy Taylor
The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt. View quote
Dave Barry
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions. View quote
Margaret Wheatley
The ball is hard to follow and it may give us some trouble. I really don't think it will make a difference in the outcome of the Series though. View quote
Roberto Clemente
You think the pissed-off steelworker in Akron has trouble now? Wait until we have a financial collapse and they take 25 percent off the dollar. He'll be serving hot dogs in an American restaurant in China. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[T]he more he governs, often the more trouble he gets into. He does not improve; he gets more unpopular, at least with the two-thirds of the country that is very suspicious of him. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. (William Shakespeare)
That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one. View quote
Pat Sajak
Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery. Another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy-and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy. Turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then, in 1877, for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it. View quote
Shelby Foote
By the time the United States took possession of the Southwest in 1848, after the Mexican War, the Navajo had become the dominant military force in the area. ...The American soldiers who marched into Santa Fe had no trouble with the Mexicans, but the Navajo stole several head of cattle from the herd of the commanding general himself, not to mention thousands of sheep and horses from settlers in the vicinity. View quote
Peter Farb
Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
We all know nations that can be identified by the flight of writers from their shores. These are regimes whose fear of unmonitored writing is justified because truth is trouble. It is trouble for the warmonger, the torturer, the corporate thief, the political hack, the corrupt justice system, and for a comatose public. View quote
Toni Morrison
In Philistia to make literature and to make trouble for yourself are synonyms,... the tumblebug explained. View quote
James Branch Cabell
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. View quote
Sophocles
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. View quote
Sophocles
There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife. (Leo Tolstoy)
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. View quote
Mark Twain
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here whereas you are merely the most numerous. View quote
Mark Twain
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought. View quote
Mark Twain
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it. View quote
Mark Twain