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 life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry”
“The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending.”
“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
“The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.”
Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
Source: Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)
“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.”
Source: The Tommyknockers
“The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.”
“The trouble with making an important decision was that you never had enough information to do it without hesitating. And it’s the hesitation that gnawed at you and never helped you to make the decision.”
Source: Predatory Kill
“The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.”
“The trouble with making plans is that they are laid on present’s roadmap. But Life walks on ever changing roads. Today’s paths seldom exist till tomorrow.”
Source: You Came Like Hope
“The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood”
“The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.”
Source: Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement
“The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.”
Source: Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship
“The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.”
“The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.”
“The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.”
Source: One Corpse Too Many
“The trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor acts it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phony every minute.”
Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
“The trouble with me is I think too much. I always said you have to be dumb to play good golf.”
“The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.”
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”
Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings
“The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.”
“The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.”
“The trouble with me is that too much of my blood was bad. The doctors couldn't bleed it out of me; whatever it was.”
Source: With a Reckless Abandon
“The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.”
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
["Existence" (1975)]”
“The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.”
“The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.”
“The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow.”
“The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.”
Source: The Stargirl Collection
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.”
“The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.”
“The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.”
“The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.”
“The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”
“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”
“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.”
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
“The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.”
Source: The Game of Life and How to Play It
“The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.”
Source: A howling in the woods
“The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.”
Source: Whole child, whole parent