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Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of ...

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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...

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Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the na...

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble...

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When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the mes...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thor...

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Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...

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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these p...

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We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone....

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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its ...

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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and the...

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole troubl...

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The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or o...

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George FriedmanThe Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble of...

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...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poo...

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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling ve...

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There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those th...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

And the trouble with bad times is, you can't sleep through them.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.

In the old days, trouble was kept in the family, which is still the best place for it, not that ther...

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The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the...

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The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get...

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Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrog...

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Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of t...

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of ...

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part s...

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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy t...

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I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. I...

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Paul MersonHow Not to Be a Professional Footballer

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of ...

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I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was ...

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not ...

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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruct...

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You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

Well, the lion is a big ol’ coward, mostly. If you want trouble, you want to tangle with the lioness...

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