Trouble Quotes - Page 27

• Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  People, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”

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• The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't really want to interact with them; you just want to know you're part of the human race. And if you get in trouble, you'll know someone else is there.

  John Romero

  Race, People, Use

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

  Nicole Richie

  Trying, Patterns, Littles

  "Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways". abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2007.

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• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  Wayne Rooney

  Wise, Football, Stopping

  "Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's wit and wisdom gets found in translation when talking Italian". La Repubblica Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 12, 2012.

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• I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

  Courtney Thorne Smith

  Stories, Autobiography, Therapy

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

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• I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Feet, Mouths, Honest

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• When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

  Hedi Slimane

  Home, Kids, Jeans

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• One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - that will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.

  John Boehner

  Country, Home, Thinking

  "John Boehner: Time For Government To Stop Helping Homeowners" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Children, Home

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

  Hailey Abbott

  Girl, Song, Giving

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• My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

  John Lewis

  Children, Parent, Noise

  "Rep. John Lewis Looks Back On The Struggle For Voting Rights". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stars, Rocks, Years

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• The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Strong, People, Long

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• I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Fall, Zombie, Relax

  "C2E2 2012: Jhonen Vasquez On The Hunger Games, And Why He'll Never Work With Ren And Stimpy's John Kricfalusi" by Danica Davidson, www.mtv.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

  Stuart Woods

  Weed, Ideas, Grows

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• If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.

  R. James Woolsey, Jr.

  Government, Doe, Littles

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• I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

  Tony Yayo

  Thinking, Law, People

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• You know I'm always in trouble.

  Tony Yayo

  Knows

  "Tony Yayo takes issue with how Max B's lawyer handled case" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 15, 2009.

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• I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

  James H. Boren

  Funny, Business, Humor

  In 'New York Times' 8 November 1970, p. 45

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Hands, Trying

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• Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

  Criss Jami

  Wise, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.123, Criss Jami

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• I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Home, Atmosphere, Different

  "Kenneth Lonergan Discusses 'Margaret'". Interview with Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com.

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