Quotes about problems

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“Graves: It’s going to snow.
Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning.
Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.”

“Shanna planted her hands on her hips.
"Getting drunk is not going to solve your problems."
"Aye, but t'will make me no' give a damn."(Robby)”

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”

“I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.”

“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.”

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”

“It's a bit embarrassing… to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”

“Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.”

“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”

“Jamie: You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
Landon: That's not a problem.”

“The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.”

“Harry Dresden: I can't believe I'm about to say this. So think real careful about where this is coming from: Have you people ever considered talking when you've got a problem?”

“For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.”

“I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.”

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

“We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.”

“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. … The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of 'conservation education.”

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”

“That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.”

“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”

“the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!”

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

“Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to, that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever the problems of the past.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”

“Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.”

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”

“To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”

“That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get…”

“I'm on a man-fast. Why bother with them? the good ones are always taken. Or they're weirdly uminterested in a capricious wild child with continuous legal problems~ Carrow the Incarcerated”

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.”

“Don't worry, now that I know about your little ego problem, I'll do my best to look all gushy when you pound you chest.”

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

“The tricky thing about mazes is that you don't know if you've chosen the right path until the very end. If it turns out you were wrong, it's usually too late to go back and start again. That's the problem with mazes.”

“The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.”

“So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved."
"Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people."
"I know. That's why you should do it."
"No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.”

“Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution.

Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”

“my lips never know my problem they just always smile”

“Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?”

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

“To alcohol! The cause of… and solution to… all of life's problems”

“Problems are adventures in disguise”

“The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.”

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

“Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.”

“If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.”

“I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.”

“Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen though… that's the problem.”

“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”

“It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.”

“Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce."

She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away.

"I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.”

“Okay," Juke said. "Your horse is a donkey, your poodle is a giant wolf breed, and your boyfriend is whatever the hell he is. You have problems.”

“The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.”

“I congratulate you on having such a unique and beautiful problem.”

“Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?"
Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?"
Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.”

“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”

“I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.”

“And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.”

“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”

“Are you demented, you stupid badger? Is that your problem? Or are you just an idiot?"
"As to that, I… Did you just call me a badger?"
"A bastard. I called you a bastard.”

“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”

“So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.”

“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”

“The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.”

“Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.”

“The faith is not the problem, the problem is the faithful.”

“I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems”

“What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.”

“A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.”

“This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.”

“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.”

“Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.”

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

“The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”

“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”

“[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life. ]”

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”

“Just Leo’s luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn’t figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problems even duct tape couldn’t solve.”

“When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”

“Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back”

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”

“It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.”

“Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.”

“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.”

“When someone covets something they desire and lust over it. Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem…”

“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”

“I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.”

“80% of people's problems are about how they feel about themselves.”

“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”

“Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;”