In Trouble Quotes
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.
If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.
When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish.
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.
We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?