Top 1200 Trouble Quotes & Sayings

I do believe the world is a pretty sad, troubled, and violent place. Maybe that's why I focus on the trouble. Even though there are good people and good things, there's also a bunch of messed up stuff. And I learned early on, you have to have some trouble in your stories. I definitely go overboard on that, but I have a lot more fun writing about the trouble.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

Kevin Johnson is the kind of guy that gives guys trouble. He gives a lot of guys trouble. He gave Vitali Klitschko trouble.

The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls. "And you would be....?" Janie asks. She giggles. "Trouble.

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

If the roads are in trouble, if bridges are in trouble, and if schools are in trouble, it's because somebody in Washington wanted to pay for something else.

No trouble, no matter how great the trouble is, should prevent you from praying.

Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.

The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I think you write only out of a great trouble. A trouble of excitement, a trouble of enlargement, a trouble of displacement in yourself.

I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble.

The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

I never have any trouble playing anything I can think of. The trouble is in thinking of what to play.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

He lifted the arm covering his eyes and turned his head to glare at her. "I knew you were trouble the first time I saw you." "What do you mean, trouble?" She sat up, glaring back at him. "I am not trouble! I'm a very nice person except when I have to deal with jerks!" "You're the worst kind of trouble," he snapped. "You're marrying trouble."

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I'd made up my mind that not all trouble was bad.

It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in it. There's no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody's got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.