Trouble Quotes - Page 8

• I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Complaining, Asking

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.15, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

  Irving Stone

  Weed, Block, Writing

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Children, Believe

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• Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Might, Sound

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• You transform all who are touched by you.
  Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
  dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

  Rumi

  Joy, Sorrow, Concern

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• I've grown tired of love
  You are the trouble with me
  I watch you walk right by

  Anne Sexton

  Love You, Tired, Watches

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• It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Thinking, Earth

  Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, about.usc.edu. May 15, 2009.

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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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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• Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.

  Frank Layden

  Relationship, Jesus, Guy

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intriguing, Intellect, Complexity

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• Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

  William Bernard Ullathorne

  Heart, Anxiety, Soul

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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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• 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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• It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

  Amy Sillman

  Painting, Instinct

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• Things are to be used and God is to be loved. We get into trouble when we begin to use God and love things.

  Jay Kesler

  And Love, Use, Used

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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 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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• The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

  Albert Ellis

  Wise, Feel Better, Get Better

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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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• 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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• Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Pay, Taxes

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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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• Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Firsts, Honest

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