All Quotes

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
‐‐ Mark Skousen

The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
‐‐ Cindy Morgan

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
‐‐ Nelson A. Miles

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
‐‐ James Lovelock

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
‐‐ Rebecca West

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
‐‐ Mark Twain

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.
‐‐ Franz Beckenbauer

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
‐‐ Phil Knight

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
‐‐ Henry Kravis

The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.
‐‐ Thomas Brodie-Sangster

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
‐‐ Erica Jong

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.
‐‐ Robert Plant

The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.
‐‐ Michael Heizer

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.
‐‐ Timothy Radcliffe

The trouble is that as women we try to take care of everybody else before we take care of ourselves.
‐‐ Cat Deeley

The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.
‐‐ Doug Flutie

The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.
‐‐ Nouriel Roubini

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.
‐‐ Michael E. Mann

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
‐‐ Craig Venter

The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?
‐‐ James Stephens

The trouble that they see me in is a part of my life that I'm working on.
‐‐ Rodney King

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'
‐‐ Len Goodman

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

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

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.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

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.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
‐‐ Smedley Butler

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.
‐‐ Penelope Wilton

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.
‐‐ Gaylord Perry

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.
‐‐ Bob Kane

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
‐‐ Caskie Stinnett

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.
‐‐ Philip K. Dick

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
‐‐ Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
‐‐ Herb Caen

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.
‐‐ Robert Winston

The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
‐‐ M. Stanton Evans

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
‐‐ George Miller

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.
‐‐ Bill Gates

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

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
‐‐ Jonathan Raban

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
‐‐ Kate Reardon

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.
‐‐ Don Fraser