„Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source… Breathin!“

„When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.“

—  Siddharth Katragadda Indian writer 1972

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Dark Rooms (2002)

„They have to make you care. They have to force it down your throat. When anyone has to force it, it's a problem. You didn't have to force that the world was round. You didn't have to.“

—  Glenn Beck U.S. talk radio and television host 1964

2010s, 2010

„But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.“

—  Sarah Dessen, könyv The Truth About Forever

Forrás: The Truth About Forever

„You don't want to go to Miami. Everybody's always delighted with it--no! Listen! The temperature down there is always over ninety and the humidity--and here's the problem--is way over 100%, way. And you know how it's over 100% humidity? When you're walking down the street for five minutes thinking to yourself, "You know, I should have put deodorant on my balls."“

—  Lewis Black American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor 1948

That's over a hundred. Because that's not something you'd think of on your own.
The White Album (2000)

„Fifty years is a very long period. The first 30–35 years – we could call this period as one when India equipped itself to face important problems. For example, we built institutions such as the IITs and the National Laboratories…We need much better infrastructure facilities and we must work on more difficult problems. Unfortunately, we have been used to working on problems that are somewhat repetitive. If we want to be at the cutting edge, we have to be innovators and originators.“

—  C. N. R. Rao Indian chemist 1934

Quoted in pdf, In Conversation, 22 December 2013, Indian Institute of Science http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/apr102002/788.pdf,

„If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.“

—  George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946

Quotation is from the October 3, 2000 Presidential debate with Al Gore, but is taken out of context. Bush was paraphrasing Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf:
The other day, I was honored to be flanked by Colin Powell and General Norman Schwarzkopf, who stood by my side and agreed with me. They said we could, even though we're the strongest military, that if we don't do something quickly, we don't have a clearer vision of the military, if we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that. I'm going to rebuild our military power. It's one of the major priorities of my administration. http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/debates/transcripts/u221003.html
Attributed, Misquotations

„We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.“

—  Billy Corgan American musician, songwriter, producer, and author 1967

Smashing Pumpkins (1996)

„If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!“

—  T. Harv Eker American writer 1954

Forrás: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

„When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.“

—  Karen Marie Moning author 1964

„As a man, if you got a problem with somebody, you sit down face to face and you talk to them eye to eye. And you hash it out and move on.“

—  LeBron James American basketball player 1984

„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

Other

„In the year 2000 you're going to have a problem…. Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now.“

—  Edie Sedgwick Socialite, actress, model 1943 - 1971

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

„Mr. President, I find it encouraging that you are proposing an initiative for reducing air pollution. Accepting the urgency, it seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to a future generation.“

—  Papa Francesco 266th Pope of the Catholic Church 1936

2010s, 2015, Address at the White House

„When you live in alignment you stop telling God how big your problems are and start telling your problems how big God is.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Forrás: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 131

„Because they (the Maute group) threatened to go down from the mountains to burn down Marawi? Go ahead, be my guest. We will wait for you there. Walang problema“

—  Rodrigo Duterte Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines 1945

No problem

Wallace Business Forum Dinner with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIJpTjsXDCs (December 12, 2016)

„The problems is mastered — insupportably
tiring when it was impending.
Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.“

—  Marianne Moore American poet and writer 1887 - 1972

"Charity Overcoming Envy"

„Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.“

—  Stanley Hauerwas American theologian 1940

From "Why Gays (as a Group) are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group)" in The Hauerwas Reader https://www.academia.edu/6641759/Introduction_to_The_Hauerwas_Reader_2001_ (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael Cartwright

„That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.“

—  Jim Butcher, Small Favor

Forrás: Small Favor

„I have to dedicate myself. Do you understand? I don't feel conflict in myself because if I do, my work doesn't go well. If there's conflict I have to sit down or go to sleep to solve it. And the only way to solve the problem is to produce really affirmative work which can only come – I can't make it come. I can't conjure it up. I can only go to sleep and hope it happens... You have to digest it and if you digest you can contribute.“

—  Barbara Hepworth English sculptor 1903 - 1975

Forrás: 1961 - 1975, Art Talk, conversations with 15 woman artists', (1975), p. 15