Tracy Kidder Quotes

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it's coming, a common response is, 'Oh no! Not again!'

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I've been in my share of trouble.

Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

To a boiling pot flies come not.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

People don't usually come see me because things are going well.

They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Every path hath a puddle.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.