Problem Quotes

• So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.

  

  Richard M. Daley
  • Business
  • Community
  • Problem

• I don't have problems with nobody, period.

  

  Trick Daddy
  • Problem
  • Periods

• Yeah, it’s really great. I mean, the clonesbians—you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and sometimes even affect it. And I’m really proud to play a gay character whose main problem is not that she’s gay, which it shouldn’t be for anyone. So, I’m really proud of that.

  

  Evelyne Brochu
  • Great
  • Character
  • Proud

• The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • People
  • Problem
  • Matter

• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Humanity

• A man walks into doctor's office. "What seems to be the problem?" asks the doc. "It's ... um ... well ... I have five penises." replies the man. "Blimey!" says the doctor, "How do your trousers fit?" "Like a glove."

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Office
  • Fit
  • Doctors

• The solution of every problem is another problem.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Problem
  • Solution

• The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Mystery
  • Scientist

• Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

  

  Michael Winslow
  • Problem
  • Have
  • Glad

• I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

  

  Carl Gardner
  • Problem
  • Singing
  • Groups

• Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Meet
  • Stranger
  • Cash

• We United States are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • United States
  • Military superpower

• Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Crisis
  • Claims
  • Solve

• I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Israel
  • Citizen

• I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was going to be a problem. I mean, I'm pretty good at not letting someone become important to me. I have to be if I want to make it to L.A." "I understand." He laughed. "How nice of you to understand, since you're the one making it a struggle for me! It would be so easy to make you important.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Mean

• People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Questions
  • Solutions

• After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Enemy
  • Revolution
  • Views

• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Revenge
  • Vulnerability

• This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Waiting
  • Sentences
  • Manage

• I don't have a problem expressing myself.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Problem

• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Problem

• The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Qualities
  • Separate
  • Photojournalist

• You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Water
  • Cooperation
  • Aids

• If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  

  Garry McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Control
  • Special

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