Quotes with trouble-makers

Quotes 161 till 180 of 286.

  • Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Adam Smith The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Brian De Palma The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Karl Lagerfeld The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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  • C. S. Lewis The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Burgess The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Howard Whitman The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Erica Jong The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Michael Ondaatje The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 129
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Charles Luckman The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Caskie Stinnett The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
    Out of the Red (1960)
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  • Philip K. Dick The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Franklin P. Jones The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
    Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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