problem quotes

“The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. ”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.”

— Victor Hugo

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. ”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ”

— Julius Robert Oppenheimer

“You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.”

— Erno Rubik

“I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' ”

— Jim Carrey

“We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. ”

— Johnny Depp

“I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. ”

— Johnny Depp

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.”

— Stephen King

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”

— Stanley Kubrick

“I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.”

— Groucho Marx

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

— Steve Martin

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.”

— Barack Obama

“My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.”

— Barack Obama

“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.”

— Henry Miller