Trouble Quotes

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.

The price of progress is trouble, and I must be making a lot of progress.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.