T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The trouble with a cause, is that the cause always betrays you.”
“The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.”
“The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.”
“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”
Source: Books Burn Badly
“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”
“The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven't been asked.”
Source: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
“The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.”
“The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.”
“The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.”
“The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.”
“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.”
“The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.”
“the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!”
Source: Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President
“The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.”
“The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.”
“The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.”
“The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.”
Source: The Onion Girl
“The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.”
Source: Barrel Fever
“The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.”
Source: The English Patient
“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.”
“The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.”
“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”
“The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.”
“The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
“The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.”
“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”
Source: Three at Wolfe's Door
“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process.”
“The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe – no way to see what’s inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble.”
Source: The Stone Gods
“The trouble with babies is that they are made like a safe- no way to see what's inside and no guarantee that the effort will be worth the trouble. spin the numbers, crack the code, but the door won't swing open. Babies are safes on time-delay. It takes years for the door to swing open, and even when it does, the best minds are undecided as to the value of the contents”
Source: The Stone Gods
“The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.”
“The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.”
“The trouble with being a rock of sense is that, eventually, you lose the sense and become the rock.”
“The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.”
“The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.”
“The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.”
Source: Kissed: Once Upon A Time Omnibus Belle/Sunlight and Shadow/Winter's Child
“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.”
Source: The VALIS Trilogy
“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“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.”
“The trouble with being patient is that, generally speaking, there's no one to see you doing it.”
Source: The Wood at Midwinter
“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”
“The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.”
“The trouble with big empires is that the enemy is far away and there is weather in between.”
Source: The Lion House
“The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.”
Source: You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You