Top 100 Trouble With Quotes
#1. The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. The trouble with scary people is
everyone's too scared
to tell them how scary they are
Janey Colbourne
#3. When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on ...
Jazmine Sullivan
#4. The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson
#5. The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Robert Helpmann
#10. The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
John Jay Osborn Jr.
#11. The main trouble with women is that they will just not put the seat back up again.
Martin Clunes
#12. The trouble with being too careful about your wishes, though, was that you could end up with a wish so shapeless that it could come true and you wouldn't even know it, or it wouldn't matter.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#13. The trouble with magic was that is was messy and dangerous and filled with longing. There were too many moments that made your heart stop and ache and start again.
Karen Foxlee
#14. We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.
Vincent De Paul
#15. The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.
Steve McConnell
#16. And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
Jerry Spinelli
#17. But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.
Bill Joy
#18. The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. [I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.
William DeVries
#20. There was no sound but the murmur of nasty little stinging insects, the occasional crack of a falling branch, and the whispering of the trees discussing religion and the trouble with squirrels. Rincewind
Terry Pratchett
#21. That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.
Nancy Mairs
#22. The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
Tennessee Williams
#23. With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
#24. The Drowned God did not answer. He seldom did. That was the trouble with gods.
George R R Martin
#25. I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams
#26. I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.
Kevin Gates
#27. 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.
Anonymous
#28. Why did you take so much trouble with me today? I know how you hate to move out of that house." "Because you're my child. You and Jem were the children I never had. You two gave me something long ago, and I'm trying to pay my debts. You two helped me a - " "How, sir?
Harper Lee
#29. Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
Joe Murray
#30. I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
Jim Coleman
#32. The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.
Harold L. Ickes
#33. That was the trouble with working the doors, too many crybabies; you were always in a 'no win' situation.
Stephen Richards
#34. The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.
Nigel Lawson
#35. That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble - leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.
Charles Bukowski
#36. Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
Will Rogers
#38. The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
Ken Dodd
#39. Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
Catherynne M Valente
#40. The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky Loebel
#41. The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real.
Terry Pratchett
#42. The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
Ringo Starr
#43. I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like players because of the way they act, but then you get to know them and then they're very good people. But I never disliked anybody.
Bengie Molina
#44. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
#45. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.
K.A. Barson
#46. This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed this over. This unites us, this part of love.
Daniel Handler
#47. Now that's discrimination - when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people - they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.
Jacqueline Winspear
#48. Harry was particularly keen to avoid trouble with his aunt and uncle at the moment, as they were already in an especially bad mood with him, all because he'd received a telephone call from a fellow wizard one week into the school vacation.
J.K. Rowling
#49. The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don't love each other enough. And if we do, we don't bother to show it, or we don't bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#50. I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
Nancy Reagan
#51. The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.
Robert Winston
#52. They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.
Terry Pratchett
#53. The trouble with taxonomic boxes is ... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#54. The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means.
Douglas Adams
#55. We are all in trouble ... with a bunch of dead people.
Neal Stephenson
#56. He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine ...
Terry Pratchett
#57. The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.
Doug Larson
#58. The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
Aldous Huxley
#59. That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
Neil Gaiman
#60. The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.
Seymour Papert
#61. I never have no trouble with my rubber girl.
Frank Zappa
#63. The trouble with the dead, Triumvir Ilia Volyova thought, was that they had no real idea when to shut up.
Alastair Reynolds
#64. Psychopaths, skillful as they are at manipulating others, have trouble with emotional regulation and generally screw up at either extreme: theatrical histrionics or cold stoicism.
Jonathan Kellerman
#65. 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
#66. The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
Robert Breault
#67. The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.
Don Henley
#68. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
Jeanne DuPrau
#69. The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
Calvin Harris
#71. The key is knowing when to fight. Men are full of anger, so they have trouble with this. Women less so.
Patrick Rothfuss
#72. The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.
Don Herold
#74. The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.
Nick Harkaway
#75. The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.
Mary Balogh
#76. The trouble with women is that they talk too much. It would be good if human beings would keep as silent as this cat.
Soseki Natsume
#77. The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.
Casey Stengel
#78. I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
M. J. Hyland
#79. The trouble with Irene is that she has a valise instead of a cunt. She wants
fat letters to shove in her valise.
Henry Miller
#80. That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.
Philip Reeve
#81. The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
Flannery O'Connor
#82. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
Oscar Levant
#83. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
Lou Holtz
#84. The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.
Andy Rooney
#85. That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.
Robert Jordan
#86. The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.
Oscar Wilde
#87. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.
George Soros
#88. The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Bum Phillips
#89. I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
Nikita Khrushchev
#90. The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
#91. The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.
Doug Larson
#92. Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
Farley Mowat
#93. The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.
H.L. Mencken
#94. The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.
Donald Barthelme
#95. You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
Jim Carrey
#96. The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.
Anne Tyler
#97. You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.
Janny Wurts
#98. There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
John Lennon
#100. The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.
Sophie Kinsella
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