Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.
Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.
There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
Cupcake, your middle name is trouble.
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.
Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(. . . ) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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.
When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.