Top 100 Trouble With You Quotes
#1. The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.
Agatha Christie
#2. The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.
Josephine Tey
#3. That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
Salman Rushdie
#4. The trouble with you, M. le comte de Sevigny, is that you're too god-damned autocratic. From now on, you will kindly remember that a good military tactician requires the support of a team. We are your team.
Dorothy Dunnett
#5. The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
John Banville
#6. The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much of the transitory beauty of life.
J.G. Ballard
#7. Older British observers complained, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you are overpaid, oversexed, and over here." (To which the Yanks would reply, "The trouble with you Limeys is that you are underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.")
Stephen E. Ambrose
#8. The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.
L.M. Montgomery
#9. Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don't have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.
Ayn Rand
#10. Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
Mark Twain
#11. 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
#12. That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.
Billy Wilder
#13. 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
#14. The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.
Don Henley
#15. 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
#16. That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.
Flannery O'Connor
#17. Max, the trouble with you is for the last nine years - well, most of your life, come to think of it - you've lived in a masculine world; you're used to logic, reason, sense. Females don't think like we do; they're emotional.
Anne Gracie
#18. The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. If you're having trouble with a math problem, plug the equation into WolframAlpha and it will solve it for you.
Keith Bradford
#20. The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
Charles De Lint
#21. Be patient with your troubles.
With patient you will overcome the mountains and the troubles.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
Jeanette Winterson
#26. 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
#27. That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.
Joe Abercrombie
#28. If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
Thom Yorke
#29. Are you introducing young children to the occult? said Madam Frout suspiciously. This sort of thing caused a lot of trouble with parents, she was well aware.
Terry Pratchett
#30. A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
Steven Pressfield
#31. I thought if you knew. you'd kill him.
I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is - his lips twisted - it's so final.
Marie Treanor
#32. Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next.
Douglas Adams
#33. But then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.
Louis De Bernieres
#34. If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.
George Carlin
#35. The trouble with cousins, Lizabeth thought, was that they knew all about you, even your allergies.
Erika Tamar
#36. I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.
James Cromwell
#37. The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymour Cray
#38. That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground
or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.
Shirley Hazzard
#39. The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
Terry Zwigoff
#40. Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
Nora Ephron
#41. The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
Bill Gates
#42. The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Peter De Vries
#43. The trouble with good manners is that people are persuaded that you are all right, require no protection, are perfectly capable of looking after yourself.
Anita Brookner
#44. The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
Sylvester Stallone
#45. I will share one of them with you now: most people don't want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things.
Ann Leckie
#46. If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.
Alanna Ubach
#47. The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
Adam Arkin
#48. Let's start off with my father being a mailman. So I understand the concerns of all the folks across this country, some of whom having trouble, you know, making ends meet.
John Kasich
#49. So that's it," he said. "Three hundred dollars. I wish somebody would come into this country with a seed that had to be worked everyday from New Year's right on through Christmas. As soon as you niggers are laid-by, trouble starts.
William Faulkner
#50. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#51. The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
Carrie Fisher
#52. The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.
Robert Breault
#53. What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Paul Auster
#54. Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests.
"You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.
Rick Riordan
#55. The trouble with being able to lift heavy things is that when heavy things need lifting folk step out of the way and smile at you.
Joe Abercrombie
#56. Now you can see today why the world is in trouble. What is the social field today? The social field is the planet, and there isn't a single system of action that has to do with the planet. They all have to do with one interest group or another.
Joseph Campbell
#57. The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
Simon Pegg
#58. At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him.
Shirley Jackson
#59. We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.
Mildred D. Taylor
#60. The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.
Jimmy Connors
#61. We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.
Frederic Raphael
#62. It's simple: To say anything about the nature of things, you must attend to the facts, facts in their original form. The trouble with knowledge is that it keeps chiseling things away.
Mencius
#63. He leaned in close almost touching her lips with his. "Shhhh. You really have trouble listening, don't you, woman?
Kym Grosso
#64. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
#65. The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.
Nina LaCour
#66. You have to keep a strong sense of who you really are - and I have a pretty strong sense of myself. It gets me in trouble when I say this, but I don't think of myself as a politician. I've always tried to be honest when communicating with people.
Rudy Giuliani
#67. The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between you and your perfect, platonic future.
Seanan McGuire
#68. That's the trouble with people like you," said Wonse, getting up. "You're always against anything attempted for the betterment of mankind, but you never have any proper plans of your own.
Terry Pratchett
#69. But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream.
Andrew O'Hagan
#70. When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey
#71. I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.
Jill Scott
#72. The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.
JoAnne Carner
#73. 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
#74. And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.
Jerry Spinelli
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Are you feeling exposed to the storms of life? Read Psalm 91, a wonderful promise from God. When we love him and tell others about that love, he moves to protect us. "I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them" (v. 15 NLT).
Max Lucado
#80. One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
Bertrand Russell
#81. I want you to be on the lookout for people who talk with unerring conviction and authority about what others should do. Especially about what others should do. These are the people who always seem to lead us into some kind of trouble.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#82. The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.
Mary Balogh
#83. 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
#84. I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble halved but things like love and joy are multiplied when you have someone to share them with.
Vikki Wakefield
#85. Immy knocked on his open door. "Mr. Mallett?"
The look on his narrow face was pained. "What's with the Mr. Mallett? When you don't call me Mike, it's usually trouble.
Kaye George
#86. That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
Jim Carrey
#87. Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is that you're only as good as your opportunities.
Ethan Hawke
#88. I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that
doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you're in trouble, you're not sinning.
Sergei Dovlatov
#89. Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#90. I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
Paul McCartney
#91. There's a saying in the movie industry that if your movie is about what you actually think it's about, you're in big trouble. I think it's the same with books.
Nick Harkaway
#92. Surfing and music were incredible outlets for me when I was a kid. And there are some really tricky times when you're growing up and it's easy to make a wrong decision, even with a good family and community around you. Surfing and music kept me out of trouble.
Jon Foreman
#93. Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction - but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.
Max Lucado
#94. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland
#95. So, sweetheart, be careful with the game-playing or you may find yourself in trouble one day.
Annie Seaton
#96. And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.
Patrick Ness
#97. I had an accident."
"That seemes to happen a lot."
"It wasn't my fault."
"It never is."
"I just have bad luck."
"Or you're just trouble."
"You got a problem with that?"
"No problem at all."
"Oh my God! Are you going to help or not?
Richelle Mead
#98. The trouble with a target-rich environment is that it's useless if you don't know which target you have to aim at.
Terry Pratchett
#99. The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
Shelley Winters
#100. But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have trouble with me!
Dr. Seuss
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