Trouble Quotes - Page 24

• The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Boys

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• The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Airports, Order, Years

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• 'It was stupid, thinking it was him, I mean, I knew he was dead' Harry muttered. 'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him....You know, Harry, in a way you did see your father last night....You found him inside yourself.'

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Life Lesson, Stupid

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• In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Issues, Choices

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• Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

  Sam Snead

  Real, Golf, Thinking

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• I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Complaining, Asking

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.15, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES, it takes away today's PEACE.

  Zig Ziglar

  Worry, Doe, Future Happiness

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Apr 04, 2014

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• A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Pay

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• Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

  Horace Silver

  People, Joy, Musical

  "Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2014.

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• When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

  Irving Stone

  Weed, Block, Writing

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• The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

  Placido Domingo

  Emotional, Voice, Worry

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• It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• 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.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, People

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.

  Frank Layden

  Relationship, Jesus, Guy

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intriguing, Intellect, Complexity

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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• There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Needs, Care

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• When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

  Barack Obama

  America, Helping

  President Obama's news conference on the Affordable Care Act, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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• You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Needs, Helping

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.323, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.

  Tenzing Norgay

  Hiking, Everest, Climbs

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

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• Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Longing, Yearning

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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• Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.

  Colin Farrell

  Love, Girl, Fall

  "Reports of Madonna celebration were wrong" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. January 6, 2005.

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• Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs of another has always been a short road to trouble.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Mean, Tolerance

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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