Trouble Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.

  William Kristol

  Apology, Wings, Political

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• Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.

  Chico Xavier

  Compassion, Prisoner, Fanatics

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• If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

  Arsenie Boca

  Shining, Being Thankful, Spirit

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• If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

  David Tang

  Ifs

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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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• Go through detailed variations in your own time, think in a general way about the position in the opponent's time and you will soon find that you get into time trouble less often, that your games have more content to them, and that their general standard rises.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Thinking, Games

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• Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Work, Home, Mean

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• If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Thinking

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• Time trouble is blunder time.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Chess, Blunders

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• Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

  August Wilson

  Attitude, Struggle, Play

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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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• 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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• I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

  Bruce Willis

  Confidence

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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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• In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

  Todd Solondz

  Fun, Character, People

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life.

  William Hudson O'Hanlon

  Wise, Adversity, Grandmother

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• Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

  Ruth Gordon

  Adversity, Next, Firsts

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• The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

  Simon Jenkins

  Sacrifice, Government, Wind

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• Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.

  Lily Tomlin

  Helping, Wells, Ifs

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• But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Fog, Cities

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• I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

  Edwin Howard Armstrong

  Ignorance, People, World

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• We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Care, Reign

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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