Trouble Quotes - Page 37

• I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Long, Way

  "Deeds Rather Than Words". Essay by Walt Disney, 1963.

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• Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Good Things, Very Good

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• You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

  Pythagoras

  Gratitude, Men, Suffering

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• The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore.

  Will Rogers

  Land

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• I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

  David Letterman

  Rocks, Giving, Monkeys

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• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Effort, Flesh

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Promise, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Average, Ideas

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• Enlightened teachers and people who help them, have a lot of trouble. People try to interfere with the work and spread awful rumors about you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Rumor

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• There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Promise, Covenant

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.404

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• The trouble with never is never, never works.

  Tim McGraw

  Expression

  Song: The Trouble With Never, 1999

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• Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Dream, Stars, Spring

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

  George Eliot

  Shoes, Boots

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Silly, Voice

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

  Stuart Scott

  Workout, Hurt, Breathing

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• I think aerobatic pilots make the best pilots because you know, you're just so confident in an aeroplane. If you're gonna get into trouble, I'd rather be with someone that's a skilled aerobatic pilot.

  Janine Shepherd

  Thinking, Pilots, Ifs

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• Give money to universities — that would be asking for trouble. All those places do is turn out more Communists.

  Lang Hancock

  Giving, Would Be, Asking

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• A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

  Mike Jeffries

  Clothes, People, Trying

  "'Attractive & Fat' ad spoofs Abercrombie". www.cnn.com. May 23, 2013.

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• It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

  George Gissing

  Pain, Causes, Speak

  George Gissing (2016). “The Unclassed”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Knowing, Want

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Littles, Feels

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• I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Believe, Validation

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doubt, Information, Temples

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Compassion, Work Out, Earth

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 1, p. 30, 1977.

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