Trouble With Quotes

#1. 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.

Nido R. Qubein

#2. The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.

Joe Abercrombie

#3. The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Will Rogers

#4. The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

Eli Wallach

#5. The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#6. The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.

Barry Hannah

#7. As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for
trouble.
We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

Graham Joyce

#9. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

#10. A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.

Kelley Armstrong

#11. I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.

Jennifer Weiner

#12. Rahel thought of the someone who had taken the trouble to go up there with cans of paint, white for the clouds, blue for the sky, silver for the jets, and brushes, and thinner.

Arundhati Roy

#13. The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.

Larry Wall

#14. Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails.

David Letterman

#15. The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them.

Dorothy Dunnett

#16. That had been the trouble with him and Betsy: what with his brooding about the past and worrying about the future, there had never been any present at all.

Sloan Wilson

#17. Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.

Bob Newhart

#18. Life is populated with scarecrows - all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Jerry Spinelli

#19. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Catherine Deneuve

#20. If you're having trouble with a math problem, plug the equation into WolframAlpha and it will solve it for you.

Keith Bradford

#21. 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

#22. This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Thomas Beecham

#24. Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe

#25. The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

Susan Sarandon

#26. My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.

Arj Barker

#27. The trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

Johnnetta B. Cole

#28. The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall

#32. The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.

Stephen King

#33. I've never been in trouble with the police.

Ricky Williams

#34. The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

Charles De Lint

#35. an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them

L.J. Shen

#36. 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

#37. Be patient with your troubles.
With patient you will overcome the mountains and the troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.

Naomi Alderman

#39. I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.

Terry Riley

#40. At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Andre Gide

#41. That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

Val McDermid

#42. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Paul Simon

#43. And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

Vince Lombardi

#44. The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

James Jones

#45. My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Nellie McKay

#46. The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

#47. The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Neil Kinnock

#48. The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

Mason Cooley

#49. I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

Naveen Andrews

#50. I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Tiger Woods

#51. I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.

Roseanne Barr

#52. The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn

#53. In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Peter Senge

#54. I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.

Junot Diaz

#55. Her face is a map of remembered trouble and absorbed guilt, The green eyes look broken, as if their glass has shattered. A motorway pile-up of wrecked mascara. Lashes jeweled with tears.

Glen Duncan

#56. I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

Erlend Loe

#57. The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow

#58. I love to give charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

Donald Miller

#59. The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.

Gemma Malley

#60. One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Robert Breault

#61. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#62. Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Jeanette Winterson

#63. Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

Marianne Williamson

#64. How to get in trouble #43: I was once caught staring at a woman's breasts, when she asked "why do you keep staring on my breasts?", I replied with "because your face is ugly

Haresh Daswani

#65. Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#66. I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Jeanette Winterson

#67. Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

James Thurber

#68. I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine.

George Lopez

#69. We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

Robbie Keane

#70. There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.

Norman Vincent Peale

#71. The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?

Jonathan Raban

#72. The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic.

Michael Crichton

#73. The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.

Cynthia Ozick

#74. I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Brian Eno

#75. As someone who has dealt with his fair share of disappointment, I've learned the best way to cope with trouble is to approach every situation with eyes wide open; focused and determined.

Carlos Wallace

#76. The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

John Romero

#77. The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Jeff Cooper

#78. The trouble with records is that they're too short.

Mahalia Jackson

#79. Hold on." Luke didn't move. "You can do that--take me along with you--and you've let us get in trouble for being late to school?"
"Luke!"
"I'm just saying.

Jen Meyers

#80. The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.

Will Rogers

#81. The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

#82. My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.

Catherine Martin

#83. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#84. The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Phyllis McGinley

#85. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

Ann Brashares

#86. 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

#87. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#88. That was the trouble with California in the 1840's. The life was too easy, there was no necessity for struggle, and men must struggle or they deteriorate.

Louis L'Amour

#89. Shelley says I have no feelings. I say, the trouble with being a man is that if you are a man you have to get on with it and save the feelings for when you're ready to deal with it. So far in my life I've never been ready. I

Mick Flynn

#90. The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.

Kingsley Amis

#91. The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Ann Landers

#92. The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess

#93. Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.

Edith Wharton

#94. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Gelsey Kirkland

#95. With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer.

Anthony Liccione

#96. The trouble with gods is that after enough people start believing in them, they begin to exist. And what begins to exist isn't what was originally intended.

Terry Pratchett

#97. Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log.

Sue Monk Kidd

#98. Our lack of focus is our primary problem and the source of many of our difficulties, like procrastination, trouble setting priorities, trouble dealing with time, trouble finishing projects, perfectionism, and the inevitable demoralization.

Douglas A. Puryear

#99. The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Kate Reardon

#100. That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.

Joe Abercrombie