Problem Is You Quotes

#1. The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy to have gotten to know her when I got to know her.

Firooz Zahedi

#2. I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.

Cheryl Strayed

#3. Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it.

Cory Doctorow

#4. You know what your problem is? You want everything to be shitty. You have a sister who loves you. Friends who love you. I love you, Heather.

Lauren Oliver

#5. The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We've I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.

Rahm Emanuel

#6. Herb nodded. "Problem is, you knocked up your girl. That's the only way women'll allow you to get away with a Justice of the Peace." Herb looked back to Hank as many of the men coughed to hide their laughter. "That's the ticket, son, only way to save us all. Start workin' on makin' a baby.

Kristen Ashley

#7. People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.

Etta James

#8. You always hear about the guy who was raised by wolves. You never hear about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. The problem is, you have a non-wolf imparting wolf teachings.

Demetri Martin

#9. You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.

Ilona Andrews

#10. In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

Liz Phair

#12. I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

Benjamin Walker

#13. Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when it comes to kendo."
"I'm also focused when I draw."
"Yeah. The problem is you're still drawing even when you don't have an actual pencil in your hand.

H.J. Brues

#14. Your problem is you're ... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Ram Dass

#15. I liked projects where I could take things apart and figure out exactly how they worked. The problem is, you can't do that with people.

Leila Sales

#16. You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

Jesse Ventura

#17. Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

John Green

#18. The problem is you don't understand what the problem is.

Tim Kinsella

#19. If the only thing wrong with Moses is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with Jesus is that he's not yours; if the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, Mecca, Buddha, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours
well, maybe the problem is you.

Mitch Albom

#20. I am getting the chaos I wanted. The problem is, you can switch the chaos on, but chaos itself is in control of the off switch.

Dean Koontz

#21. The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'

Jochen Zeitz

#22. If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Dennis Prager

#23. I do know you, Fancy. All about you. The problem is, you don't know about me.

Dia Reeves

#24. If you swap it about, do television, theatre, film, you can go on surprising yourself. The problem is you get employed to do something you've already done. They want something from that sheep pen of performances they've seen you do.

Kenneth Cranham

#25. The problem is, you can't fake dead hands. That invisible something that fills dead or sleeping hands, making them appear strange and inanimate, is impossible to imitate.

Ainslie Hogarth

#26. Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

Toni Morrison

#27. There's a difference between not caring about what others think, and not caring about yourself. Your problem is you don't even care about you. And if you don't care about yourself, how the hell is anyone else supposed to?

Lindy Zart

#28. You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

Jay Abraham

#29. The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

Bob Kerrey

#30. See, if you hate, you don't just hate one group. If you hate Jews, you probably also hate blacks, Gypsies, whomever. The problem is you, not them. You're the one with the hate.

Anatol Chari

#31. There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Brian Schmidt

#32. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

#33. Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.

Paulo Coelho

#34. Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Jim Hightower

#36. The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

Alan Greenspan

#37. about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don't know what your small true part is until much later.

Nathan Hill

#38. From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.

Kelvin Sampson

#39. Mind your own business and you'll live hundred years. Problem is, you know, a hundred years is a long time. Do I really want to live that long?

J.M. Darhower

#40. That's a shitty thing to do. It's almost catlike in its evilness."
"See, your problem is you underestimate dogs. There's a reason many of us are let up on the couch, while they keep y'all in a zoo.

Shelly Laurenston

#41. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Robert Fulghum

#42. The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

Brent Runyon

#43. We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?

Gary R. Ryan

#44. Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes.

Dave Obey

#45. The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Ellen Hopkins

#46. Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Tobias Wolff

#48. The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Martin Van Creveld

#49. Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

Danica McKellar

#50. Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you're good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don't see as a special skill. It's just you. It's what you've always done.

Stephen Jay Gould

#51. To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.

Eric S. Raymond

#52. Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.

Michael Chertoff

#53. Maybe these cards aren't such a great idea. Can you imagine if everyone had the power to mess with everyone else's lives? Chaos.'
But of course, this IS the problem. We already have that power over each other.

Nicola Yoon

#54. The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#55. The problem is never the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Think before you rush into action.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#56. The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. Sometimes, when my hormones are out of sync, I have no interest in the mirror, and if I do look I think everything is all wrong. Other times, I am quite pleased with what I see.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#57. The problem in Burma is the problem in Egypt, the problem you refer to in Yemen, and the problem in a lot of these countries in the world: that you can get stuck in the process of transition, in what's been called a competitive authoritarian ... a pseudo democratic regime.

Larry Diamond

#58. Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are.

Linda Morris

#59. I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Miguel De Icaza

#60. This is not your problem."
"You are my problem."
Now she stared at me like I asked to hump her leg. Perhaps I was saying the wrong things and should shut the fuck up.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#61. To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Eli Broad

#62. What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

#63. The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#64. One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.

Kathy Reichs

#65. Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . subordination. You argue too much." "No, I don't," Miles began indignantly, then shut his mouth.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#66. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#67. The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Bert Blyleven

#68. The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

Jack Coleman

#69. The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.

Mario Cuomo

#70. The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

Joel Osteen

#71. Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

Ruth Westheimer

#72. 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.

Augusten Burroughs

#73. Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

Laura Klein

#74. I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

Harold Lederman

#75. The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.

Terry Hayes

#76. I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.

Tony Goldwyn

#77. That is the problem with revenge - you wind up destroying the innocent as well as the guilty.

Cassandra Clare

#78. Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Alex North

#79. You have to accept that you'll never be good enough for some people. Whether that is going to be your problem or theirs is up to you.

Bryant McGill

#80. Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.

Asne Seierstad

#81. With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

Joseph Campbell

#82. Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

Kiera Cass

#83. You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist.

Anton Chekhov

#84. You are your father's daughter,' he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. 'Trent is his father's son. Apart, you are annoying. Together ... you have the potential to be a problem.

Kim Harrison

#85. It's like surgery. You can't close the patient's chest until you've found the wound and operated on it. The problem is the open chest, the wound is the challenge and the YES is the operation. You

Shonda Rhimes

#86. The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar, so you may have to resurrender your life fifty times a day. You must make it a daily habit. Jesus said, "If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing to give

Zondervan Publishing

#87. 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.

Gideon Defoe

#88. To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

P. J. O'Rourke

#89. Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Chip Kidd

#90. So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Paul Rand

#91. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

Douglas Adams

#92. I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#93. You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

Norton Juster

#94. One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Kobe Bryant

#95. When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

Byron Katie

#96. The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Booker T. Washington

#97. The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed.

C.S. Lewis

#98. Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

Romain Grosjean

#99. The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Denis Villeneuve

#100. I love when you get boner spam for boner pills and the subject is Be a better lover. Oh, the boner was the problem on that? That's why I'm a bad lover? Do you have a pill that's gonna make me care if she cums? That would be a medical miracle.

Doug Stanhope