Problem Quotes

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I was ready to move up a weight class, but I can still make 140. If I'm back in the ring in the summertime I know I can make 140 with the heat. I've always been disciplined so it's no problem for me.

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

If you don't feel pretty, you're wrong. If you're dealing with a problem, don't be afraid to talk. And... If you think you're alone, listen to my music 'cause I'm here for you.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

Training with Bela and Marta Karolyi took the joy out of the Olympics for me. I look back and feel there was a lot of verbal and physical abuse. For years, I felt it was my problem.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.

Focus on the princess, not on the problem. You can't marry the princess without killing the dragon. So when you see the dragon, just remember: There's a princess on the other side.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

On and on you will hike. And I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.

In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, ‘I.’

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself.

The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America.