Best 4184 quotes in «problem quotes» category

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.

Nothing would be better today if Europe were divided or smaller. Today we have to say loud and clear that the crises, which have affected Europe cannot serve as a pretext for its disintegration. A mini-Europe would be the worst response to the maxi problems we have to face.

Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.

Now, as when I made films that were too autobiographical, the problem is how to escape naturalism. If you tell a strictly true story, because the way you are telling it is false, it creates naturalism. But I become a naturalist. And to become a naturalist is something I avoid. It is fake life - that is the problem. It is because we are familiar with situationnisme, and the critique of the spectacle, et cetera, which is a very fair criticism. People who have no life, and who watch this fake life on a screen - it's a very alienated situation. And that's what situationnisme is about.

Now, I can't help but feel inferior. When I'm out in public in Afghanistan, I feel inferior because I'm doing everything I can to stay hidden, silent. I feel inferior because I am seeing firsthand the impact of America's foreign policy and can't help but feel like a living, breathing representation of that - despite my own personal views about that policy. It reinforces to me that I want to be part of the solution - and I want my work to be part of the solution - not part of the problem.

Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. There's no such thing as "fixed" culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.

Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.

ObamaCare is the Democrats' problem. We are gonna take the problem off the shelves for them. We're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. We could sit back and let them hang with it. We are doing the Democrats a great service.

Obama has some manacles, and that might limit him. However, he's the first American president to raise $600 million for his campaign. That frees him from lobbyists; it frees him from special interests, and it could free him from those who would manipulate him. If he is going to solve the problem, he has to be free enough to solve the problem between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.

Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Obviously radical Islamic terrorism is a big problem, but there are all sorts of kinds of horrific terrorism that take place.

Obviously, people are going to think what they think, and I've never had any problems proving people wrong. I do what I do.

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

Obviously, the US does not want a shooting war with North Korea. But there has to be some path out of this situation that is also presented that is peaceful. We have sanctions, we have deterrence, but the third leg of any resolution to this problem has to be dialogue. It seems prudent for the US to not only threaten North Korea, but to also offer a way forward.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second Law of Thermodynamics poses no problem for an evolutionary origin of life is the most absurd… The operation of natural processes on which the Second Law of Thermodynamics is based is alone sufficient, therefore, to preclude the spontaneous evolutionary origin of the immense biological order required for the origin of life.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

Once we truly understand that our waking experience is dreamlike, we no longer have to treat life as a serious problem.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.