Quotes with trouble-makers

Quotes 61 till 80 of 286.

  • Thomas Paine I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Broderick Crawford I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest.
    Broderick Crawford
    American actor (1911 - 1986)
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  • Adam Clayton I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Tom Lehrer I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • James Thurber I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bruce Willis I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Aaron Carter I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Charles de Secondat I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
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  • Maria Montessori If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Alexander Herzen If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Elbert Hubbard If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Wyndham Lewis If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Thomas Paine If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Gloria Steinem If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Al Sharpton If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Ann Beattie If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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