Quotes about problems

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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow”

“You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.”

“There would be a trial and there would be a judge. The only problem was, there could only be one sentence.”

“Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.”

“I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.”

“My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”

“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”

“If you cannot recognize the problem, there is no way that I could explain it to you."
He laughed, damn the man. "My goodness," he said, "that was an expert sidestep.”

“Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”

“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”

“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”

“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

“Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.”

“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”

“I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.”

“Fenworth!'
Yes?'
You bore me with your prattle.'
Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.”

“My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there’s another shaping up to knock me down.”

“Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;
Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”

“Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.”

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

“Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone”

“Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”

“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.”

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”

“Swords can’t solve every problem.”

“when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.”

“Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”

“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”

“I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.”

“Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.”

“A problem is something to solve,” Phillip says. “If there’s no solution, it’s not a problem, so stop treating it like one.”

“Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.”

“Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.”

“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”

“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”

“The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”

“Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”

“You don't find happiness in the absence of problems. You find happiness in spite of problems.”

“I think you're the only person who gets me. When I'm with you, the world doesn't feel like a problem I can't figure out. Please come to the dance, because you're my music.”

“Clary," he said. "You saved my life."
"I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire."
His lips twitched imperceptibly. "Okay," he said. "So maybe our problems aren't like other couples.”

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are.”

“Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!”

“These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.”

“We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

“If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.”

“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”

“And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!”

“Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.”

“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”

“That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable…. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.”

“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.”

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”

“My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.”

“People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.”

“When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.”

“As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.”

“When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.”

“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

“Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.”

“Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.”

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

“There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes.”

“I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.”

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”

“I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.”

“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

“Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.”

“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.”

“But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor”

“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

“I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.”

“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”

“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.”

“And when you'd finished running you'd be thousands of miles away from people who love you and your problem would still be there except you'd have nobody to help you.”

“I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.”

“Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.”

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this problem by defying their elders and copying each other.”

“The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.”

“The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.”

“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes.”

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”

“The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know”

“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”

“Some problems even duct tape couldn't solve.”

“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”

“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”