Problem Quotes

I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which continues to be a problem for novelists the world over.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps.

The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

Making ourselves the solution, rather than part of the problem is our greatest challenge.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution.

One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.

My worst personal problem is that my computer doesn't understand me.

I love efficiencies and I love solving big problems, and I love working with people who create efficiencies. I love creating efficiencies in my own life on a day-to-day basis.

The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

The cure might be worse than the problem

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

You have to be better than your problems.

The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

you can't just heely away from your problems forever

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.