Top 100 The Trouble Quotes
#1. God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.
Jackie Pullinger
#2. If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove.
Truman Capote
#3. I wouldn't want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don't mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
Tom Petty
#4. It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Syd Barrett
#5. That's the trouble, you see. When you've had hatred on your tongue for such a long time, you don't know how to spit it out.
Terry Pratchett
#6. The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can't change what you feel inside.
Rebecca James
#7. Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors
however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. If you knew the trouble we've had because Howl will keep falling in love like this! We've had lawsuits, and suitors with swords, and mothers with rolling pins, and fathers and uncles with cudgels. And aunts. Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.
Diana Wynne Jones
#9. That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.
Clark Johnson
#10. The sadness will ebb
the trouble is the time it might take
David Levithan
#12. One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, ... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better
Isaac Asimov
#13. She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.
'What's the trouble?'
'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.'
'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it.
John Mortimer
#14. The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.
Irving Kristol
#15. I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one - And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.
Charles Darwin
#16. Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.
Donald Davidson
#17. Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#18. Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
Evel Knievel
#19. The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.
Maria Edgeworth
#20. At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers
#21. The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
Barry Hannah
#22. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Dennis Potter
#23. The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
#24. All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull
#25. The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
Jose Saramago
#26. I think we ought to do all we can to make these creatures friendly. It might turn out to be well worth the trouble.
Richard Adams
#27. There was a sigh from Death. Space he thought. That was the trouble. It was never like this on worlds with everlastingly cloudy skies. But once humans saw all that space, their brains expanded to try and fill it up.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
Gustave Le Bon
#29. When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
Thomas A. Edison
#30. The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
Norman Vincent Peale
#31. Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
Andy Murray
#32. The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias ... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.
William Kristol
#33. Green is a soothing color, isn't it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is - it is said to send you a little mad - not that I'm casting aspersions . . .
J.K. Rowling
#34. A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Thomas Carlyle
#35. The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the nightly news like a disaster or a scandal would.
Aaron Koblin
#36. Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Will Rogers
#37. Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the hook."
But that was the trouble, wasn't it? Letting himself off the hook had been his way of life.
Tom Franklin
#38. The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.
Barbara Holland
#39. The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Bernard DeVoto
#40. That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
John Updike
#41. But the trouble with living in the moment is that the moment passes. Impulse and spontaneity take no account of the longer term, of responsibilities and obligations, debts to be paid, promises to fulfil. I
David Nicholls
#42. I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
Kevin Mitnick
#44. THE TROUBLE with the old boy network is you can never be really sure whether it's switched on or not and whether it's operating in your interest or some other old boy's.
Ben Aaronovitch
#45. This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.
Richard Glover
#46. I think that life is a paradox and you have to embrace that in your work and your belief systems ... You can't be a literalist, and that's the trouble that people always find themselves in. That's why people always hit a wall with any of my stuff, because you can't take it literally.
Madonna Ciccone
#47. The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H.L. Mencken
#48. There is really no crisis except an artificial one ... If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.
Abraham Lincoln
#49. Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit.
Junot Diaz
#50. If you want to be happy, settle amidst the trouble. But if you want to be better, fight with the trouble.
Sarvesh Jain
#51. The trouble with being inspired to perform the impossible was that the inspiration gave you no clues to the practical means.
Ken Follett
#52. The trouble is," I said, "I can no longer distinguish the accidental difference among Waldensians, Catharists, the poor of Lyons, the Umiliati, the Beghards, Joachimites, Patarines, Apostles, Poor Lombards, Arnoldists, Williamites, Followers of the Free Spirit, and Luciferines. What
Umberto Eco
#53. The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.
Romain Gary
#54. Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.
William Bolcom
#55. The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Herb Caen
#56. Don't be fretting ... about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
L.M. Montgomery
#57. People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#59. I wouldn't like to see Cuba change in other ways. And the trouble is when Fidel [Castro] does go - I am sure he will at some stage. He will probably be replaced by some sort of Western capitalism, ultimately.
John Gimlette
#60. The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Croft M. Pentz
#61. A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#62. The worldly life is not the trouble, the 'wrong belief' is the trouble [oopadhi]. What happens when you believe that which is not yours, as being yours? You will be in trouble.
Dada Bhagwan
#63. Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy ... the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
Barbara Kingsolver
#64. The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.
Matthew Waterhouse
#65. Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale
Timothy Ferriss
#66. That's the trouble with not being in your own field: You don't take it seriously.
Richard Feynman
#67. When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!
Hattie McDaniel
#68. You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.
Lawton Chiles
#69. In every four there is one the slowest, and one the swiftest; and while the race is always to the slowest, the trouble is always with the swiftest.
Lew Wallace
#70. However, the trouble with getting what you've always wanted is that once you have it, you have to worry that you'll lose it.
Katherine Center
#71. This is the trouble with meeting people in real life: They don't come with profiles attached.
Sophie Kinsella
#72. The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for 'Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter.' He is surprised that the Italians have not done it. Though perhaps they have, and he just never caught on.
Hilary Mantel
#73. I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right.
Suzanne Collins
#74. The trouble with life is, we never know when we are in the zone, until we think back, with jealous longing, years later.
Robert Black
#75. So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.
Larry Ellison
#76. How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.
Euripides
#77. Jesus to Pilate:
"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too closed off and have definitely lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all one's affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#78. The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.
JoAnne Carner
#79. The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.
Austin Kleon
#80. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt
#81. The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.
Daniel Handler
#82. The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem De Kooning
#83. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
Ambrose Bierce
#84. That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.
Andy Miller
#85. The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
#86. Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#87. The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
Charles Stross
#88. The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
Alexander Hanson
#89. The trouble with scary people is
everyone's too scared
to tell them how scary they are
Janey Colbourne
#90. The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson
#91. Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#92. The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#93. It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.
Agatha Christie
#95. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed but what CAN BE observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories. And often those expectations get in the way.
Michael Crichton
#96. The trouble with disagreeable people, Tibbs, is that the majority of them seem to be either one's direct relations or part of one's daily job. Present company excluded, of course" -Inspector Percival Pensive
Jessica Lawson
#97. The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.
Paulo Coelho
#98. The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Robert Helpmann
#99. The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.
~Andy Peters
Agatha Christie
#100. I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found," I said to the man searching my pants. "You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two.
Nenia Campbell
