Problem Quotes

• I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Guys
  • Solve
  • Strategies

• That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

  

  Kevin James
  • Great
  • Want
  • Positive

• Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Existence

• The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Secret

• I just really have a problem with people stereotyping in any shape or form. So yeah, I never really wanted to do that. You know I'm married to a black woman and people get surprised when you say that. They expect you to have some big, blonde, busty chick.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Woman
  • Married
  • Surprised

• A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Heart
  • Solutions
  • Puzzles

• Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Mathematician
  • Hypothesis
  • Riemann

• The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Games

• I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Problem
  • Interviews

• One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush.

  

  Philip Morrison
  • People
  • Movie
  • Experienced

• There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Freedom
  • Believing
  • Misunderstanding

• Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We understand is that when there's a problem or failure is the family sticks together.

  

  Anna Holmes
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Ideal

• I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

  

  Carolyn Mackler
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Myself

• The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Problem
  • Lies
  • Germans

• The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.

  

  Michael Horse
  • People
  • Problem
  • Films

• I think you need to explain what the term means and that it's a mean and derogatory term. And then you have to help your child to understand that it's the other child's problem who called them that name.

  

  Alvin Francis Poussaint
  • Problem
  • Child
  • Term

• It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Interesting

• Only when the problem is gone will we get rid of the word 'feminism'. But I doubt that will happen in my lifetime

  

  Caroline Criado-Perez
  • Doubt
  • Lifetime
  • Feminism

• The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heart
  • Mankind
  • Solution

• He’s your problem, but what a great problem to have.

  

  Anna Banks
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Have

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