Top 100 Good Trouble Quotes
#2. A cop told me, a long time ago, that there's no substitute for knowing what you're doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that're any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.
George V. Higgins
#3. I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.
Julia Butterfly Hill
#4. Listen very hard and follow your heart. Your heart is good. It's your brain that gets you into trouble.
Kristen D. Randle
#5. I didn't want to kiss you good-bye - that was the trouble - I wanted to kiss you good night - and there's a lot of difference. - ERNEST HEMINGWAY Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Robyn Schneider
#6. I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.
Jack Nicklaus
#7. That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.
Grace Paley
#8. Never say anything about someone which, if called to testify, you are unable to repeat to the person's hearing or the hearing of the person's close friend. This will save you a lot of trouble in life.
Chikamso Efobi
#9. That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
Nick Hornby
#10. The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'
Len Goodman
#11. The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
George S. Patton
#12. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin Pierce Adams
#13. You should never mistake affection for ... passion," I warn her. "It can be ... not good. It can ... get you into, well, trouble.
Bret Easton Ellis
#14. Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.
Tommy Shaw
#15. At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.
John Dufresne
#16. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.
Anita Brookner
#17. Some girls look to fill the emptiness with their rebellious ways and get into trouble. Other girls try hard to fill the emptiness with good things and get praise. But both girls are reaching for something we'll never find outside of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#18. The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar
#19. Take your pick. It literally could be any one of those things and many, many more. It's hard to live a morally good life when you have a propensity for shenanigans.
T.J. Klune
#20. Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.
Fay Weldon
#21. Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
Nora Ephron
#22. Life is a mess, there is trouble around every corner. But Jesus gives us peace and rest in the good and the bad times.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#23. metabolic impairment can also cause decreased appetite or an absence of appetite. Patients with this kind of metabolic issue tend to struggle with making food choices, either having trouble deciding between foods or feeling that nothing looks good.
Emily Cooper
#24. What is called a good conscience is often but a dull one that gives no trouble when it ought to bark loudest;
George MacDonald
#25. When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
Tony Abbott
#26. The LORD is good, t a stronghold in the day of trouble; u he knows those who take refuge in him.
Anonymous
#27. Ah hears tings which Ah don' like at all. Cain't say much. Get mahself 'n plenty trouble. But yuh all want to watch yo step plenty good. Yassuh.
Ian Fleming
#28. The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
Croft M. Pentz
#29. He's the reason I have so few rules on my team. He told me not to make any rules because that way if a bad kid screws up you get rid of him. If a good kid screws up you do what you have to do and let it go at that. Rules just get you in trouble.
John Feinstein
#30. I don't think the Port Authority does a good enough job in anything that they do, quite honestly, but clearly in the area of security. Those cops get paid more than N.Y.P.D. cops, and quite honestly - I know I'm going to get into trouble for saying this - they're nothing more than mall cops.
Joseph J. Lhota
#32. I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
Mick Jagger
#33. The trouble with you, M. le comte de Sevigny, is that you're too god-damned autocratic. From now on, you will kindly remember that a good military tactician requires the support of a team. We are your team.
Dorothy Dunnett
#34. To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves ...
Noel Coward
#35. Jesus, how much stuff can one girl carry around in here?" he asked, waving a tampon. "Got your friend, huh? This is probably a good deterrent. Try waving it in the air if you run into trouble. Nobody will mess with your shit. Believe me.
Cassie Alexandra
#36. There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing; it seemed unfair that anyone should possess (apparently) perpetual youth as well as (reputedly) inexhaustible wealth. 'It will have to be paid for,' they said. 'It isn't natural, and trouble will come of it!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#37. It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.
Paul Bowles
#38. Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that weren't captured.' Not good. In fact, Trump's people are telling him to lay low for a while until this all combs over.
Jimmy Fallon
#39. The only rule I have is to quit while it's still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it's going good. Then it's easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you'll get into a dead spell and you'll have trouble with it.
William Faulkner
#40. It's good to have some certainty in life, even if it's only that I'm in deep trouble.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#41. If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#42. Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser.
Thomas Pynchon
#43. At first it may cause a good deal of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting off its own head.
Teresa Of Avila
#44. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.
Bjorn Borg
#45. Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not ... The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.
Laurence Steinberg
#46. Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father.
- Nell
Jane Steen
#47. I was the one that was always dancing and got along with everybody, but I also spoke my mind. If I didn't agree with something the teacher would say, I'd tell her, so I would get in trouble for things like that. I've always been a good/bad boy.
Shameik Moore
#48. He didn't say so but Andy agreed with the bodyguard. A good-looking bird like this one didn't have to kill anyone. What she did she did for D's and if a guy gave her too much trouble she'd just walk out and find someone else with money. Not murder.
Harry Harrison
#49. He hoots as he passes. Another one whistles. I know this is stupid, inviting trouble. But it feels so good to be wanted, I can't help myself.
Kerry Cohen
#50. The trouble is that people hate coaches, and for good reason. Coach travel is a dismal and humiliating experience. When I take the bus, as I sometimes must, from Oxford to Cambridge, I arrive feeling almost suicidal.
George Monbiot
#51. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?
Sharon Sant
#52. There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.
Judith Martin
#53. I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.
Larry The Cable Guy
#54. Seriously, it's against the rules, a boy isn't a good enough reason to get into trouble.
Evelyn Smith
#55. Lottie tilted her head to one side and looked Maya up and down. You're a little bit of a thing, but I hear you're good at stirring up big trouble.
Sara Humphreys
#56. Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
Julia Child
#57. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#58. I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.
Waldo Salt
#59. The old huntsman was a surprisingly good teacher. He didn't belabor his points, didn't talk down to us, and didn't mind questions. Even Tempi's trouble with the language didn't frustrate him. Even
Patrick Rothfuss
#60. Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
Warren Buffett
#61. There are two sorts of good wills. The one says, "I would do well, but it gives me trouble, and I will not do it." The other, "I wish to do well, but I have not as much power as I have will; it is this which holds me back." The first fills Hell, the second Paradise.
Francis De Sales
#62. Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
Bobby Cox
#63. Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel pain anymore that you're in real trouble.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.
Charles Dickens
#65. We haven't been too bad, have we?"
"No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.
Ray Bradbury
#66. There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.
Josh Billings
#67. The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.
Doug Flutie
#68. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah.
J.C. Reed
#69. Besides, if he wants kids, Gale won't have any trouble finding a wife. He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the
Suzanne Collins
#70. When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'
Toby Emmerich
#71. Nah, he's a good person, and fun, too. The point is, he called saying that he was in trouble, and need our help." "No, Patrick, you're the one who needs help.
Ryan Roy
#72. When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.
John Barrasso
#73. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".
Jeannette Walls
#74. Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.
Bill Cosby
#75. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
#76. The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them
Anne Tyler
#77. I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
Madeleine Peyroux
#78. I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.
Kris Kristofferson
#79. The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.
Nick Hornby
#80. I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!
Ledisi
#81. Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
Charles Kettering
#82. I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.
Victoria Dahl
#83. if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. The trouble with golf is that you are only as good as your last putt.
Doug Sanders
#85. With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.
Flip Wilson
#86. Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
Lydia Davis
#87. Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
Richard Stallman
#88. Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski
#89. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#90. Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait.
Susanna Clarke
#91. I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
Stefan Edberg
#92. Paradoxically, a saint like [Albert] Schweitzer can give one a lot more trouble than King Leopold II, villain of unmitigated guilt, because along with doing good and saving African lives Schweitzer also managed to announce that the African was indeed his brother, but only his junior brother.
Chinua Achebe
#93. I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.
Godfrey
#94. Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
Jay Asher
#95. To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
Mark Twain
#96. In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?
Mary Blakely
#97. If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.
Joy Behar
#98. You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.
Akeem Ayers
#100. He fell to his knees.
Oh, that was good.
Kate Meader
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