Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.
Mason Cooley

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edgar Watson Howe

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
Doug Coupland

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
Samuel McChord Crothers

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.
John Waters

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
Anita Roddick

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
Ann Beattie

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.
Robert Goulet

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
Gene Tierney

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
Joe Eszterhas

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
Marcel Carne

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Payne

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Christopher Lasch

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
Bob Woodward

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
Anne Tyler

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
Kin Hubbard

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Mary Astell