Problem Quotes (page 8)

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• saying
• you me
• she

Kyle, every boy pays for kisses. Do you know what I am saying? If you've got a girl, and she kisses you, sooner or later you're paying for it. You've gotta take her out to lunch, take her to a movie, and then spend time listenin' to all her stupid problems. Look, look at Stan right there. [Kyle turns to see Stan, who's listening to Wendy over at the merry-go-round] Why he's gotta sit there and listen to her stupid motherfuckin' problems 'cause she kisses him. If you ask me, that's a lot more... Trey Parker

• people
• problems

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems. Dorothy Height

• way
• sees
• problems

The way we see the problem is the problem. Stephen Covey

• personality
• personal
• personal problems

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin Joseph Stalin

• money
• money problem
• fix

If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem. Kim Kardashian

• government
• governance
• solve

Government can't solve the problem. Government IS the problem. Ronald Reagan

• him
• alone
• you me

You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?"My problems?"Yes.'And you'll give me answers?"I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?"I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space.It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk."Ah, talk . . .... Mitch Albom

• possible
• once
• possibly

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. Michael Pollan

• reality
• science
• wise

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique. C. S. Lewis

• confused
• author
• rightful

You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist. Anton Chekhov

• sharing
• other
• problems

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. Chuck Palahniuk

• understanding
• betrayal
• feeling

When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them."Why?" Luciana asked. "Because you come to love your children more. I lost my mother and father to images in photographs and handwriting on letters, and as I abandoned them for you, the saddest thing was that they made no protest."Even now that I'm going back to them, I regret above all that I must leave you."You're not going back to anybody," Alessandro told him. "We'll solve those problems later."Alessandro," his father... Mark Helprin

• strength
• today
• enough

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. Max Lucado

• life
• learning
• overcomes

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• understanding
• sharing
• personality

At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. Doris Lessing