Trouble Quotes - Page 12

• When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Mind

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• When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.

  Paul Gallico

  Family, Two, People

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.

  Dave Barry

  Night, Garden, Zucchini

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Believe, Winning

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Children, Dad

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• Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

  Richard O'Brien

  Home, Cutting, Night

  Metro.Co.Uk Interview, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Groups, Three

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• I love acting, love it. It's the greatest fun in the world. I've never had trouble feeling extremely grateful.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Grateful, Feelings

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• If I could take your troubles
  I would toss them into the sea,
  But all these things I'm finding
  Are impossible for me.
  I cannot build a mountain
  Or catch a rainbow fair,
  But let me be what I know best,
  A friend that is always there.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Rainbow, Poetry

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• That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we do. We know one or two things we can see and measure.

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Two, Doctors

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• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  Burt Ward

  Children, Business, Writing

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• From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

  Petrarch

  Journey, Mountain Peaks, Hiking

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• Time trouble is blunder time.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Chess, Blunders

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• 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

  Years, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

  David Ruffin

  Hands, Should, Mourn

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• Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

  James Lipton

  Genius, Cases

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Bruce Sterling

  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

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• You transform all who are touched by you.
  Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
  dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

  Rumi

  Joy, Sorrow, Concern

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• The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

  Paul McKenna

  Positive, Practice, People

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• Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Causes, Favour, Impressive

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• The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Love, Sweet, Sleep

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Men, High Heels, Bars

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• It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

  Amy Sillman

  Painting, Instinct

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• Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

  Jay Kesler

  And Love, Use, Used

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