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Trouble Quotes

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Katie McGarry
“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
Katie McGarry, Take Me On

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Rick Riordan
“My name is Percy Jackson.
I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
Am I a troubled kid?
Yeah. You could say that.”
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Ernest Hemingway
“I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.”
Ernest Hemingway

Lev Grossman
“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”
Lev Grossman, The Magicians

Israelmore Ayivor
“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
Israelmore Ayivor

Cormac McCarthy
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road

James Patterson
“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Nora Ephron
“Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."

[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]”
Nora Ephron

Benjamin Franklin
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Holly Black
“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.”
Holly Black, Red Glove

Tamora Pierce
“You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.”
Tamora Pierce, Street Magic

Robert A. Heinlein
“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Montesquieu
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
Montesquieu

Victoria Schwab
“Looking for trouble, he'd say. You're gonna look til you find it.
Trouble is the looker, she'd answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.
Why do you want to die?
I don't, she'd say. I just want to live.”
Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

Anton Chekhov
“There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."

(The Mill)”
Anton Chekhov, The Portable Chekhov

Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.”
Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all,—
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain. ”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

D.J. MacHale
“Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened.”
D.J. MacHale, The Merchant of Death

Erik Pevernagie
“Postmen have a legendary aura. A ring at the doorbell may inflame a sense of expectation, suspense, secrecy, hazard or even intrigue. Ringing twice may imply a warning that trouble is on the way or an appeal to make the coast clear. Not all mailmen, though, will ring twice and await an eye-catching Lana Turner, whom they can whisper: "With my brains and your looks, we could go places.” ("The postman always rings twice")”
Erik Pevernagie

Patricia Briggs
“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”
Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow

Harry Truman
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
Harry S. Truman

Neil Gaiman
“It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

Criss Jami
“Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.”
Criss Jami, Killosophy

Jennifer Crusie
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
Jennifer Crusie, Faking It

Neil Gaiman
“He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.

Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.”
Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

Ann Landers
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.”
Ann Landers

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