Top 100 Trouble Time Quotes
#1. The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time.
Stephen King
#2. Fear stretching out ... is how you live 'forever'. You torture the seconds with worry, you anticipate everything that awaits you, you trouble time, and it becomes an agony of isolated, unconnected moments.
M.J. Rose
#3. And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
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Sarah Dessen
#5. And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.
John Waters
#6. It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.
Terry Gilliam
#7. You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.
Boyd K. Packer
#8. I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
Gabrielle Reece
#9. I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!
A.A. Bell
#10. Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was.
William Scranton
#11. Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ... its the doing of it that gives them trouble
Harry S. Truman
#12. Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.
Warren Buffett
#13. I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#14. The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they're done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
Ray Bradbury
#15. It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.
King James I
#16. Worry and trouble weighed heavily on the hands of her clock, rushing time along.
V.C. Andrews
#17. Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
#18. It's not rocking the boat, Dad. It's called communication. You're allowed to ask questions. Other people do it all the time. Other people don't live in fear of someone else's reactions. They don't relentlessly stress out about getting into trouble.
Koren Zailckas
#19. Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.
Rodney Dangerfield
#20. I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
Hailey Abbott
#21. Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn't 'get well'.
Liane Moriarty
#22. That's the trouble when you're young, my hun soul says. You think you have all the time in the world. You think the world will wait until you're ready.
Janie Chang
#23. The trouble with doing nothing is that you can never take any time off.
Hoagy Carmichael
#24. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
John C. Maxwell
#25. Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.
Paul David Tripp
#26. These muddles were as nothing to the ones which historians had to try and unravel once time trouble was discovered and battles started pre-erupting hundred of years before the issues even arose.
Douglas Adams
#27. Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I'm in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don't want my help ... maybe I should have just stayed home.
D.L. Given
#28. In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
Bill Gates
#29. 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
#30. That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.
Mira Grant
#31. In the time of trouble just before the coming of Christ, the righteous will be preserved through the ministration of heavenly angels; but there will be no security for the transgressor of God's law. Angels cannot then protect those who are disregarding one of the divine precepts. [257]
Ellen G. White
#32. The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#33. Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.
Charles Simeon
#34. There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Don Marquis
#35. I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
Mira Sorvino
#36. The trouble is, you think you have time.
Budha
#37. There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
Helen McCloy
#38. I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles I'm coming slow but speeding
Dave Matthews
#39. Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble.
H. Rider Haggard
#40. Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.
James Mangold
#41. I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble ... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic.
Emily Meade
#42. That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.
Bill Bryson
#43. The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!
Richard Feynman
#44. In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
Hafez
#45. Loosen up, " Mr. Keene said again. "Most of your trouble, Eddie, comes from being so tight and stiff all the time. Take your asthma, for instance. Look here.
Stephen King
#46. He still wasn't looking at me, which meant I was still in trouble. I swear, sometimes this partnership is like being married. We fight all the time and neither one of us is getting married.
John G. Hartness
#47. There's a time to live and a time to die.
The only trouble is, when would you know?
When would your mind let you freely sacrifice your life?
Life is as long or as short as you want it to be.
Or so they say.
Paul Leslie Griffiths
#48. As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
Carol W. Greider
#49. Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.
Ginger Rogers
#50. Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
#51. When I make a recipe for the first time and it's fabulous, I know I'm in trouble because I don't know exactly what I did, and I can't replicate it.
Diane Mott Davidson
#52. I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.
Britney Spears
#53. Books had seen me through an earlier time of trouble, and their presence all around me was both a comfort and an answer to the question of why I had come here.
Anonymous
#54. I've spent enough time behind a bar that I've formed a few opinions about what people wear and what it says about them. Guys who wear black from head to toe fall into two categories: they want to be trouble, or they are trouble.
Karen Marie Moning
#55. Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.
Jennifer Estep
#56. Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme
I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.
Dorothy Parker
#57. We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
Vance Havner
#58. An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
Robert Schumann
#59. I hear that you were on a date with Trouble Kelp. Are you two planning on building a bivouac any time soon?
Eoin Colfer
#60. Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.
Arnold Palmer
#62. You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
Mario Puzo
#63. I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.
Bill Murray
#64. I never really had stage nerves but I did have had trouble getting up to the right energy level. For a long time I drank. I drank up until 1982 and then I gave up alcohol.
Gordon Lightfoot
#65. My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.
James Cagney
#66. The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Willem De Kooning
#67. It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
Agnes Repplier
#68. Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.
Julie Andrews
#69. Fuck it. All she thinks about these days is whether something'll get her into trouble. Who cares? There was certainly a time when she didn't: and she was a better person then.
Paul Russell
#70. Assholes who run into trouble all the time probably run into trouble because they are assholes. There
Jack Donovan
#71. The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble ... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.
Garry Kasparov
#72. I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
Bob Hope
#73. I understand. That's the trouble. I understand. I'll understand all the time. All day and all night. Especially all night. I'll understand. You don't have to worry about that.
Ernest Hemingway,
#74. Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
Arthur Bryant
#75. Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
William Penn
#76. If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
Vincent De Paul
#77. Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.
Madelyn Alt
#78. It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.
Katherine Anne Porter
#79. I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.
Apolo Ohno
#80. I wasn't trying to get into any trouble behind these crazy ass niggas, but at the same time, I wasn't about to act as if I was a punk, either. I
Tynessa
#81. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
John Barrymore
#82. Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble
Sarah Dessen
#83. What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot ...
Bisco Hatori
#84. To avoid disappointment, know what is sufficient. To avoid trouble, know when to stop. If you are able to do this, you will last a long time.
Lao-Tzu
#85. I gulped. But, I mean, everyone bends the truth sometimes to be friendly. What's really weird is that I'm the only one who seems to get in trouble for it. Anyway, what could possibly go wrong this time?
Sue Wyshynski
#86. Or give your child a piggyback during leg exercises, or even your girlfriend or your wife (though not both at the same time - that could be trouble).
Mark Lauren
#87. The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.
Don Cupitt
#88. There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
Dan Webster
#89. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-Ucci
#90. God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.
Susan Vreeland
#91. I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
#92. If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.
Maria Sharapova
#93. It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God. Spend plenty of time with him; let other things go, but don't neglect Him.
J. Oswald Sanders
#94. We often do not yield ourselves to God in obedience to His commandment to love our fellow men with Christ's love. What if that love should flow out to all around, even to those who hate us? This would require much grace and cost us time and trouble and serious prayer.
Andrew Murray
#95. Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.
Stephen Mansfield
#96. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore
#97. Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.
Frank Wead
#98. Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#99. The sadness will ebb
the trouble is the time it might take
David Levithan
#100. We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.
W. Brian Arthur
