When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
Never meet trouble half-way.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.
If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.