Problem Quotes

I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The problem with me is I read everything, but it's only the bad stuff that stays with me. It's weird, you only need to be told something once and it stays with you.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.

My problems are all behind me!

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

I don't have a problem with people from Slovakia and Lithuania. But I do have a problem with immigration from Islamic countries.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

It's hard to face the problem when the problem's your face.

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Real problem is not population explosion, but what the population is doing.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories... money, health or relationships.

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over intermediate obstructions.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

The problem is not what we are doing badly, it is because we are not doing things well.

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.