Trouble Quotes - Page 7

• My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the ground to stand on in the change. I was coming out of a melancholic phase. This was taken when I was traveling extensively, on the road from hotel to hotel. You get displaced, and then taking self-portraits becomes a way of hanging on to yourself.

  Nan Goldin

  Taken, Self, Order

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• The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.

  Steve McConnell

  Dirty, Long, Forgotten

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• If in God's loving plan you have to bow before what appears to be a frowning providence, you can be sure that He's got your ultimate happiness at heart. He's working to free you from your worries, not by giving freedom from trouble, but by arranging circumstances so that as you go through them you'll experience the truth that He is everything He says He is

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Giving, Worry

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• They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

  William Ralph Inge

  Perspective, Live For Others, Seems

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• I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Tired, Mean, Talking

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

  Billy Joel

  Love, Fashion, Hair

  "Just the Way You Are". Song by Billy Joel, 1977.

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• The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

  Rumi

  Love, Strong, Wings

  Jalal al-Din Rumi (2010). “Mystical Poems of Rumi”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

  Barbara Deming

  Change, People, Mind

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

  Rick Scott

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Florida

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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Education, Wall, Thinking

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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• Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Eye, Thinking

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• Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

  Rebecca West

  Thinking, Bridges, Views

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Christian, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1998). “God's Abundant Grace”, p.56, Moody Publishers

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• There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiring, Happiness

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• Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

  Nelson Algren

  Lying, Dating, Advice

  "Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.

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• Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Math, Names

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.224, Mark Twain

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• There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Men, High Heels, Bars

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• The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

  John Sterling

  Men, Clients, Wealthy

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Three, Conflict

  "Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings". Book by Marquis de Sade, December 1, 2007.

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• Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years all the more popular lines of this opening, which comprise probably more than 25 percent of all published opening theory!

  Bent Larsen

  Years, Black, Lines

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• SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

  Reiko Chiba

  Drinking, Jewels, Shining

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• The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Business, Art Is

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• Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

  William Penn

  Business, Confusion, Tasks

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.155

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