Problem Quotes

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.

The problem I have with schools is, people are taught, 'This is how you do this.' They're not taught about why you do this.

In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

No greater problem is presented to the human mind.

Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

Well, the problem of the federal government is that they print money and go in debt. That's their national policy, Democrats and Republicans it doesn't matter. And this is where I differ.

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem.

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

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

The BBC fulfils a wonderful cultural function. Maybe the problem is that it feels it needs to be everything to everybody.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

A problem is your chance to do your best.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.