Trouble Quotes

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper."

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.

The truth is that Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with, and finally crushed. It is no use trying to satisfy a tiger by feeding him with cat's-meat. The sooner this is realised, the less trouble and misfortune will there be for all concerned.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.

So much trouble in the world. All you got to do is give a little.

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.