Problem Quotes
11076 quotes by 5908 authors
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You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
— Norton Juster
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't…
— Carl Sagan
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The problem with people is that they're only human.
— Bill Watterson
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When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can…
— Bell Hooks
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Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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You have some severe mental problem I need to be aware of, don’t you? (Shahara) Just because I eat babies for breakfast and pick my…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we…
— Christopher McDougall
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Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
— Zig Ziglar
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I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's…
— Ralph Ellison
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem…
— Chelsea Handler
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
— Albert Einstein
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These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help…
— Sean Covey
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Why don’t you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.†“I have one,†she said, “but I don’t think it’s very good. Half…
— Julia Quinn
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Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved…
— John Steinbeck
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The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)
— Nicholas Sparks
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We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes…
— Alberto Manguel
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