No scientist is admired for failing in the attempt to solve problems that lie beyond his competence. ... Good scientists study the… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls,… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
My thing from the beginning is to have it be useful, and be able to help others. It's about being efficient and… — David Belle Copy Share Image
Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
There is a tendency to throw computers at third world problems, which I think is often a distraction. Putting computers in the… — Terry Winograd Copy Share Image
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In today's highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We owe $20 trillion, and we're a mess. And we've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, according to a report that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since… — Udny Yule Copy Share Image
Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to… — Gloria Trevi Copy Share Image
If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that… — Nikolay Alexeyev Copy Share Image
Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don't seem to have this problem. Their closeness… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image