I’ve always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet. – Molly Ivins
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. – Karl Kraus
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d’Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. – Michael Ignatieff
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. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble. – Kenneth Fisher
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble – and will not publish with a clear conscience. – Kenneth L. Pike
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain
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 capitalism as a system is that only those who have or can get capital can make it work for them, and that leaves out damn near all of us. – Molly Ivins
I’ve always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble. – Kate Christensen
I’ve never been one to just do what I’m told. I don’t say that necessarily with pride, it’s just something that has gotten me in trouble before. – Jemima Kirke
My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin. – Leonid Hurwicz
I’ve got to keep my head out of trouble, because if it goes on, it would be ‘Harry Potter boy this, Harry Potter boy that.’ – Jamie Waylett
I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine. – Lynda Barry
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble. – Peter Senge
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that’s why politicians are extremely dull. – Rachel Johnson