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- 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
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the one pushing the envelope, stirring things up, sometimes getting in trouble. I was always the first one to get a spanking as a kid.
- Answers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
- Nov 07, 2020
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.
- Big Cities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is something particularly useful and for some reason is having trouble getting funding from traditional sources, I may be interested.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020