Problem Quotes

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

George Bernard Shaw

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Bertrand Russell

Of a universal civic society:

This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.

In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Ernest Hemingway

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your — your president thinks.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

William Faulkner

Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.

It's important to focus on the solution, not the problem.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.

Recently I have been working on a difficult problem. Today I come here to battle against that problem with you.

Albert Einstein

The U.S. has enough problems without publicity seekers going out and openly mocking religion in order to provoke attacks and death. BE SMART.

She won't go quietly, that's the problem. I'll fight to the end.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

Eleanor Roosevelt

At times, we've disagreed on matters of policy. But one thing we've always shared is a notion of what public service should be. That it ought to be more than just doing what's popular in the moment. That it ought to be about what's right for our nation, over the long term. It ought to be about problem-solving and governance, not just how we can score political points on each other or engage in obstructionism. And where compromise is not a vice and where bipartisanship is a actually considered a virtue — to be rewarded, not punished.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life's losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

The problem is, whether a man constantly and strongly believing that such a thing shall be, it don't help anything to the effecting of the thing.

In my lifetime Europe has been the source of our problems, not the source of our solutions. It's America and Britain that saved the world.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not say that a world without aggression or threats of war would be an easy world. It will bring new problems, new challenges from the Communists, new dangers of relaxing our vigilance or of mistaking their intent. But those dangers pale in comparison to those of the spiraling arms race and a collision course towards war. Since the beginning of history, war has been mankind's constant companion. It has been the rule, not the exception. Even a nation as young and as peace-loving as our own has fought through eight wars.

John F. Kennedy