Trouble Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

  Richard Linklater

  Thinking, Film, Bigs

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  Lamorne Morris

  Mother, Hero, Mean

  "Out to Lunch With: Lamorne Morris, Who Spills on His Bad Church Behavior and Worst Date Ever" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

  Bret Michaels

  Errors, Rocks, People

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• I've never been in trouble with the police.

  Ricky Williams

  Police

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• Prayer Declaration I will trust in the covering of Your wings, and in the shadow of Your wings I will trust. Be my defense and refuge in times of trouble. I will sing of Your strength. In the morning I will sing of Your love, for You are my fortress. You are my strength. I sing praise to You, for on You I can rely.

  John Eckhardt

  Morning, Prayer, Wings

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• We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

  Katherine Paterson

  Faces, Dealing With Death, Dies

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Iran, Has Beens

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

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• As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

  T. B. Joshua

  Struggle, Destiny, Overcoming

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• Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real.

  Amy Neftzger

  Real, Stories, Recognizing

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.311, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Fighting, Law

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• If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Finance, Knows, Ifs

  "What Dijsselbloem Really Said: Full 'On The Record' Transcript". Interview with Tyler Durden and Luke Baker, www.zerohedge.com. March 26, 2013.

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Childhood

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Death, Pain, Sorrow

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• I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

  Bruce Nash

  People, Mind, Trying

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