Trouble Quotes - Page 30

• Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

  George Orwell

  Clarity, Imitation, Modern

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.

  Ovid

  Routine, Habitual

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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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• Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

  Sophocles

  Hurt, Self, Prove

  Sophocles (2012). “Oedipus the King”, p.65, 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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• Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

  Billy Graham

  Affliction, Reason, Ifs

  Billy Graham (1987). “Facing Death and the Life After”, W Publishing Group

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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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• If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

  Harry Golden

  Mean, Adversity, Long

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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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• 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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• So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.

  Thucydides

  Truth, Men, Hands

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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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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• The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Writing, Six

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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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• I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

  Douglas Coupland

  Docks, Taste, Seafood

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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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• If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

  Deborah Tannen

  Frustration, Men, Offering

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• For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

  Susan Faludi

  Men, Feminist, Purpose

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Never wait for trouble.

  Chuck Yeager

  Waiting

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• Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?

  Frederick Carl Frieseke

  People, Argument, Life Is

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• People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Helping Others, People, Faults

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• Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

  Melody Beattie

  Prayer, Life Changing, Miracle

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.134, Hazelden Publishing

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• Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Fall, Dark

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