Problem Quotes

The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

~ Caitlin Doughty

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

~ Richard Bach

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

~ Ai Weiwei

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

~ Noel Gallagher

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

~ Golda Meir

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

~ Adrian Mckinty

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred.

~ Michel Foucault

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

~ Condoleezza Rice

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

~ Toni Morrison

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

~ Mario Andretti

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

~ B. B. King

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

~ J. Edgar Hoover

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

~ Gertrude Stein

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

~ Zaha Hadid

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

~ Peter Eisenman

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

~ Travis Kalanick

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

~ Rob Pike

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

~ Gloria Steinem

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

~ Jan C. Ting

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

~ Alice Waters

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

~ Michelle Obama

With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

~ Yehuda Berg

When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

~ Parvesh Cheena

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

~ Richard Smalley

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.

~ Mary Berry

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

~ Sam Harris

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

~ Bill Nye

If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

~ Octavia Spencer

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

~ Julian Casablancas

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

~ Michael Berryman

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

~ Tom Petty

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

~ Gloria Steinem

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

~ Camille Paglia

I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.

~ Karen Mcdougal

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

~ Oprah Winfrey

I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.

~ Patti Stanger

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

~ Phil Mcgraw

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

~ L. Neil Smith