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Trouble Quotes by William Faulkner
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
- The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier…
- You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
- a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble…
- That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating…
- I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to…
- Well, Bud," he said, looking at me, "I'll be damned if you don't go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then…
More Trouble Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our… — John James Audubon
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. — Jane Austen
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. — Lord Acton
- The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. — David Bailey