Problems Quotes

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Tom Robbins
“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Everett Dirksen
“When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
Everett Dirksen

Thomas   Moore
“Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination”
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Meg Wolitzer
“...You want to know whether the problems that you teenagers feel—will they follow you over the rest of your lives? Will your hearts always be aching? Is that what you are asking me?”
Goodman shifted in discomfort. “Something like that,” he said.
“Yes,” said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. “Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn’t be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on.”
No one could say anything. “We are so, so fucked,” Jules finally said...”
Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

Earl Wilson
“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”
Earl Wilson

Jared Diamond
“Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.”
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Harry Truman
“I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.”
Harry S Truman

Israelmore Ayivor
“Empty complaints are the sources of everyday failure, but not the problem being complained about. Problems are solvable; but not with complaints. A complainer is just an explainer of problems!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Hugh Miller
“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
Hugh Miller

Michael Palin
“It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.”
Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

Rex Stout
“Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.”
Rex Stout, Champagne for One

Donna Goddard
“We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.”
Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

Jennifer E. Smith
“Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the world below. It seemed entirely possible that it was all just a matter of setting and location, and Peter wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.”
Jennifer E. Smith, You Are Here

“The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.”
Bianca Frazier

Toba Beta
“I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.”
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Laurent Gounelle
“Velké problémy neexistují. Jsou jen malí lidé.”
Laurent Gounelle, Dieu voyage toujours incognito

Jonathan Anthony Burkett
“Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.”
Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected but Undefeated: The Life of a Boy Who Never Knew a Mother s Love

“We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.”
Rachel Fischer

“People that complains all the time about problems are the one's that need to fix there problems.”
Ahmed Farrag

John Green
“His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.”
John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone.”
Joe Mari Fadrigalan

“Locate the problems in people’s lives with the intention of finding a solution”
Sunday Adelaja

Ibram X. Kendi
“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.”
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

Jonathan Messinger
“I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.”
Jonathan Messinger, Hiding Out

Haresh Sippy
“Keep talking about problems and they will only increase.”
Haresh Sippy

“معظم مشاكلك مصدرها من داخلك”
Ahmd Justin

“With positive attitude, you can overcome any problem.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Ralph Ellison
“Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way for us to be asked to sing? Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious? After all, he was singing, or trying to. What if I asked him to sing?”
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Junot Díaz
“The first law of everything is that the world don’t usually give a fuck about our problems — we are our own little thing and the world is its own infinite thing.”
Junot Díaz

Stephen Fry
“Real problems aren’t number-shaped, they’re people-shaped.”
Stephen Fry, Making History