Top 100 Great Trouble Quotes
#1. The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
John Sterling
#2. The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.
Newton D. Baker
#3. Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
Mason Cooley
#4. You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
J.K. Rowling
#5. It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.
Nadia Boulanger
#6. People in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.
May Sinclair
#7. I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.
Ulysses S. Grant
#8. You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
Russell Johnson
#10. This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.
J. E. Buckrose
#11. think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your
J.K. Rowling
#12. I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.
Eleanor Clark
#13. You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
J.K. Rowling
#14. The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.
H.G.Wells
#15. The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.
Harry Houdini
#16. You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
J.K. Rowling
#17. Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.
Terry Goodkind
#18. We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.
Chief Seattle
#19. Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra
#20. Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability-whether they are easily measured or not.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#21. 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.
Thomas A. Edison
#22. After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen
Nostradamus
#23. The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
Ty Cobb
#24. The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.
One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.
Robert A. Heinlein
#25. White world, great trouble, not a sound, only the embers, sound of dying, dying glow
Samuel Beckett
#26. My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#27. My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Diego Corrales
#28. The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
Robert Fulghum
#29. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox
#30. If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#31. 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.
Vik Muniz
#32. The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
Harold Wilson
#33. Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
Agatha Christie
#34. Who told you I've been losing?"
"You did!"
"Well, THERE'S your trouble! I've been lyin'!"
Ron Shawver and his Mom from The Great Northern Coven
Bruce Jenvey
#35. if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
Swami Vivekananda
#36. The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?
Rose Macaulay
#37. When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
Kevin Costner
#38. Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
Benjamin Franklin
#39. Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing child better than her more healthy offspring.
Charles Mackay
#40. The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
Orison Swett Marden
#41. No trouble, no matter how great the trouble is, should prevent you from praying.
T. B. Joshua
#42. There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.
Carole Radziwill
#43. There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with great purpose.
Alan Redpath
#44. Don't worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone."
"If I was a forty-year-old man suffering from erectile dysfunction, that would be a great comfort to me, thanks.
Molly Harper
#45. That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
Jonathan Kellerman
#46. One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.
Michael Shannon
#47. 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
#48. Far below there was a rumour and a trouble as of great engines throbbing and labouring.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. Great minds seek wisdom.
Average minds seek entertainment.
Small minds seek trouble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.
Sherwood Anderson
#51. Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
Blaise Pascal
#52. 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
#53. The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
Orison Swett Marden
#54. Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.
Jean Charest
#55. Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius
#56. I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble.
Peter Hollingworth
#57. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?
Robin McKinley
#58. The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.
Lyn Nofziger
#59. We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#61. I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble." Shahrzad gripped Irsa's hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. "But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.
Renee Ahdieh
#62. The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.
Manuel Rivas
#63. Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Honore De Balzac
#64. To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and respected, as another have merited in fifty years. It is a gain of thirty years without trouble.
Blaise Pascal
#65. I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.
Joe Biden
#66. No wife ever cleared a man's character, not without a great deal of trouble on the lower decks. So
Gail Carriger
#67. Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
Epictetus
#68. I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves
and that is the real risk.
Steve Young
#69. b Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. 17 c Better is a dinner of herbs where love
Anonymous
#70. We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.
Brian Curtis
#72. I think one of the things about Peter Parker that is so great, and what has made him and Spider-Man last so long is he is a kid that we all feel connected to, he's not an alien, he's not a millionaire, he's just this kid that has trouble asking girls out.
Marc Webb
#73. I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.
Gregg Popovich
#74. Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
Pierre Beaumarchais
#75. It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
John Henry Newman
#76. When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#77. I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
Jenji Kohan
#78. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
#79. I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.
Ellen Page
#80. Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#81. Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.
Werley Nortreus
#82. Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.
Mike Mignola
#83. My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
#84. This was a familiar feeling, for there were many places in the great forest where you could drink in its energy, become one with its ancient heart. When you were in trouble, you could find your way in these places.
Juliet Marillier
#85. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
#86. Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard
#87. If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
David Horsey
#88. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
#89. Life is hard and astonishingly complicated ... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work
or want to work
will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
Sinclair Lewis
#91. I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
Michael Palin
#92. They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
William Ralph Inge
#93. The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Roland Barthes
#94. Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
Hazel Scott
#96. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. Persons who go through a great deal of trouble or pain to attain something tend to value it more highly than persons who attain the same thing with a minimum of effort.
Robert B. Cialdini
#98. Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak!
~Sir Constant
W.E. Cule
#99. What you look like and how great you are rarely go hand in hand. Otherwise, we'd have no trouble judging good men from bad, now would we?
Dew Pellucid
#100. There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
Myrtle Reed
