Top 100 The Problem Quotes
#1. The problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions
Martin Cohen
#2. The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.
Susan Rothenberg
#3. The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.
Arthur Dong
#5. What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.
Harriet Lerner
#6. The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
Tom Wolfe
#7. The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.
Lawrence Goodwyn
#8. It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.
Stan Brakhage
#9. The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.
Steven Shainberg
#10. The problem with feelings is neither that our moods fluctuate nor that our emotions seem to fail us. The greater dilemma is that most have only learned how to dance to one type of feeling.
T.K. Coleman
#11. We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.
William Griffith Wilson
#12. It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
Garry Shandling
#13. I think it is absolutely correct to solve the problem of terrorism in Iraq and Syria and Libya.
Matteo Renzi
#14. I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.
Tariq Ramadan
#15. Okay, here is the problem," I said. "Assignment means schoolwork, and Hawaii means vacation. And children do not actually like to mix those two items.
Barbara Park
#16. Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices stay in their envelopes, you're making matters worse. When you finally have to deal with the problem - believe me, you will eventually - it will be exaggerated because you didn't take action.
Jean Chatzky
#17. That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.
Demetri Martin
#19. Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What do you want?
I don't know.
What seems to be the problem?
Just leave me alone.
Jenny Offill
#20. An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.
Eraldo Banovac
#21. The problem with confronting people who make these comments is that the most you will get out of it is mockery and reprisal by superiors. You are just one girl who got offended by the comment, while so many others adhere to it.
Kaitlyn Scarboro
#22. The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Salvador Dali
#23. Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#24. The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.
Jonathan Franzen
#25. Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.
Ann Brashares
#26. The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.
Pascal Bruckner
#27. For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea ... we
Simon Sinek
#28. 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
#29. Change the problem by changing your mind.
Ken MacLeod
#30. That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]
Christopher Paolini
#31. Everyone who works in the domain of fiction is a bit crazy. The problem is to render this craziness interesting.
Francois Truffaut
#32. It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always
appreciated.
Douglas Adams
#33. The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.
Eugene Lim
#34. The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.
Bui Diem
#35. More than the problem, it's your reaction to the problem that creates chaos in your lives. Do not react in life. Always respond.
Pravin Agarwal
#36. Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#37. Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
Cara Delevingne
#38. The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
Ryan Reynolds
#39. Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.
Rickson Gracie
#40. Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.
Rick Warren
#41. The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.
Ted Dekker
#42. Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#43. All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.
Chris Rock
#44. Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.
Craig Benson
#45. There is enough to go around. Lack of the will to share is the problem, not lack of the stuff to share.
Neale Donald Walsch
#46. This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood at all.
Michael Crichton
#47. So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.
Anna D. Shapiro
#48. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
Stefan Molyneux
#49. The Missouri men are snakes," I whisper to Jeff. "The lot of them."
"Men are men," he says with a shrug. "It's men thinking other men are snakes that's the problem.
Rae Carson
#50. Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.
Judith Butler
#51. The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles De Lint
#52. Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.
John Wooden
#53. The problem is that those who produce the emissions do not pay for that privilege, and those who are harmed are not compensated.
William D. Nordhaus
#54. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
Sam Harris
#56. Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
Ingrid Newkirk
#57. I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
Meg Cabot
#58. The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.
Katherine Paterson
#59. Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.
Slavoj Zizek
#60. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.
Aaron B. Powell
#61. The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
Joshua Cohen
#62. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver
#63. The problem is not just liberal extremism or conservative extremism. The problem is extremism.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#64. The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water.
Paulo Coelho
#65. And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.
Terry Goodkind
#66. People are the least creative when fighting the clock ... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.
Teresa Amabile
#67. I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
David Attenborough
#68. The problem with being British ... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
Danny Boyle
#69. You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music.
Dustin Diamond
#70. It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
John Green
#72. The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.
Robert Kane Pappas
#73. The problem, says my sister, Kelly, is not that I can't get over Naomi - it's that I refuse to.... Loving Naomi and waiting for her to come back to me - it's not a stalker thing, but more like a personal mission. A job.
David Levithan
#74. The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
#75. I don't see what's so good about helping others, though. If they only become reliant on you. Then you're just part of the problem.
Sunjeev Sahota
#76. When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock
#77. We all know more than we give ourselves credit for. The problem is, there's too much surface shit that gets in the way, too many clouds obscuring our thoughts, filling us with worry and doubt and fear. It stops us from tapping deeper within ourselves.
J.R. Rain
#78. The problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.
Steven Pinker
#79. The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are. That's what I discovered about myself last night.
Anonymous
#80. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Unknown
#81. 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.
David Nicholls
#82. It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.
Daniel Abraham
#83. You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
Roni Horn
#84. In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.
Paul Allen
#85. Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture ... make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera.
Elliott Erwitt
#86. Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#87. I love you, too.
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.
Megan McCafferty
#88. This is the problem with illusions: They form easy enough, but once they fall apart, they're impossible to put back together. They're like humans in that way.
Hugh Howey
#89. It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.
Colin Wilson
#90. In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
Leigh Steinberg
#91. That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.
David Sedaris
#92. The problem with our "change the world" rhetoric is that it is too often a thinly veiled grasp for power and a quest for dominance - things that are antithetical to the way Jesus calls his disciples to live.
Brian Zahnd
#93. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#94. The problem with always having to be right is that sometimes you're not. And so, if you're like me, those times when you're not, you try and save face - especially after you've seriously fucked up. You make one bad decision and then another, trying to fix that very first fuck-up.
Chris Bohjalian
#95. We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
John Green
#96. Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
Leo Frobenius
#97. In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.
Raisa Gorbacheva
#98. That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true - much more difficult than proving they are.
Tad Williams
#99. It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.
Sabrina Jeffries
#100. That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.
Karl Pilkington
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