- Nov 07, 2020
Trouble Quotes
Words on courting trouble, dodging it, and living with the fallout.
This page gathers quotes on getting into trouble as a kid growing up in a tough neighborhood, the modern risk of oversharing on social media, and even a writer's fear of falling behind at the keyboard.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to acquire, what are we going to do differently? We came up with six rules of thumb. Whenever I've violated two of them, I usually get into trouble.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by four older sisters, so there's trouble right there. We are Catholic, very religious, and that sort of colors my world and my music.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never meet trouble half-way.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problem as a country is that most of us do not want to join the euro, and we wish to stay aloof from the common frontiers of the free-travel Schengen area. This makes our relationship with the E.U. fraught with tension and trouble.
- Embarrassing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020