Look at the laws: you can't spank a kid without getting in trouble. That kept me in line!
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.
I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.
We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for much of my youth. In times of trouble, I've always had football. I always knew I was a football player. And that was a comfort on many occasions.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here... if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble.
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
I can carry a tune with a three-note range. Once I'm out of that range, I'm in trouble.
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.
I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
My trouble is I talk first and think later.
