Trouble Quotes - Page 20

• Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

  A. E. Housman

  Luck, Chance, Lad

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Avid, America, Fiction

  E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.110, Random House

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• To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Hero, Men, Average

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Money, Men

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• Many gloat over their own troubles.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Ruins, Danger

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• When trouble ends even troubles please.

  Sophocles

  Ends, Please

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• The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

  Norman Cousins

  Home, Practice, Decision

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• In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Years, Forget, Thousand

  Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Belief, Capacity, Idealism

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• The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Wife, Difficulty

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.451, Penguin UK

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• We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Fool, Danger

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “The Leaning Tower and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America

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• There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Legacy, Biographies, Early Life

  Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1917). “The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero”

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• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  William Howard Taft

  Too Much, Speakers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

  Drew Carey

  People, Laughing, Looks

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. November, 1997.

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• I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.

  Scott Caan

  School, Kids

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• I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Catholic, Purpose, Pope

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• There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Block, Moving, Writing

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• If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

  Ann Beattie

  Book, Thinking, Stories

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• 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

  Responsibility, Issues, President

  "The golden trumpet" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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• I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

  Gene Hackman

  Marine, Authority

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• Never wait for trouble.

  Chuck Yeager

  Waiting

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• So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Happiness, People, Heaven

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• If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hero, People, Causes

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• There may be difficulty at the moment, but I will not lose the Virtue that I possess. It is when the ice and snow are on them that we see the strength of the cypress and the pine. I am grateful for this trouble around me, because it gives me an opportunity to realize how fortunate I am.

  Zhuangzi

  Grateful, Opportunity, Ice

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