Over the past 18 months I've been coming to terms with and seeking to cope with a drink problem, and I've come to learn through that process that a drink problem is a serious problem indeed.
~ Charles Kennedy
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
~ R Buckminster Fuller
The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem. [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus]
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~ Robert Schuller
A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
~ Dorthea Brande
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
~ Tina Modotti
There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
~ Harold Stephens
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
~ Milton Friedman
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists
~ Edward De Bono
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
~ J P Getty
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
~ Alan Saporta
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
~ Gordon Ramsay
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
~ Robert Schuller
If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.
~ Glenda Jackson
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
~ Garry Shandling
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
~ Charles M Schulz
Within the problem lies the solution.
~ Milton Katselas
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
~ Stanley Arnold
The problem with socialism is that it will take up too many evenings.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
~ Jonathan Coe
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
~ Charles DeLint
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out!
~ Dee Hock
The problem with smoking guns is you can't see their smoke.
~ Ari Fleischer
The World Cup is every four years so it's going to be a perennial problem.
~ Gary Lineker
The problem that has no name. (The Feminine Mystique 1963)
~ Betty Friedan
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
~ Keith Richards
Ayrton has this problem - he thinks that he can't kill himself.
~ Alain Prost
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Henry Cate
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
~ Jim Rohn
There are so many different types and categories of problem, it is not always helpful to think in this way however.
~ Pauline Hanson
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
~ Rudy Giuliani
The problem I have with the press is that if you tell them anything interesting, they never take any notice.
~ Zara Phillips
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
~ Joseph Stalin
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~ Henry Cate VII
My problem is reconciling my gross habits with my net income
~ Errol Flynn
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well
~ Pierre Omidyar
Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more.
~ John Bledsoe
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
~ Joan Collins
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
~ Abraham Maslow
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
~ Phil Donahue
This is as good as I could have hoped and I'm really happy there. What we've done has worked. There's no problem
~ Glenn McGrath
The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
~ Diego Maradona
I don't trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problem.
~ Seve Ballesteros
It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
~ Joan Collins
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
~ Tommy Lasorda
I believe Duncan Fletcher is the best person to analyse the problem and come up with solutions
~ David Morgan
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
~ Robert Orben
I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
~ David Letterman
Newly-built houses suffer from something of an image problem.
~ John Prescott
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem
~ Albert Einstein
The problem is very likely connected to his last run and it's a hell of a blow [on an injury to a horse]
~ Nigel Twiston-Davies
The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.
~ Don Howe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
~ Henry Kissinger
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
~ Paula Poundstone
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong.
~ Henry L Mencken
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
~ Rene Descartes
He can say exactly what he thinks of the job I've done. It's a million per cent not a problem for me. [on talks with his former Chairman at Portsmouth]
~ Harry Redknapp
We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.
~ Pat Williams
The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.
~ Robin Cook
Every football player knows when his time is up. The problem is that many carry on playing a lot lot longer!
~ Red Grange
I'm worried they look too skinny now. The problem is everyone's telling them how good they look. [on Girls Aloud]
~ Louis Walsh
I would have no problem with players speaking to the press if I believed that they were intellectually capable of doing so.
~ Peter Ridsdale
I remember doing dance routines in the playground. I still like it, that's the problem. If it came on I'd probably sing along and do my same routine to it.
~ Charlotte Dutton
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~ Erich Fromm
It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.
~ Dillon Anderson
Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP
~ Vince Cable
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
~ C S Lewis
The problem with pumping so much iron is that it dulls your brain, and it's not just the dumbbell that is dumb.
~ Anonymous
If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.
~ Dennis Miller
Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous[on Gordon Brown]
~ Charles Clarke
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
~ Frank Luntz
France is doing everything it can, but the problem is that it is impossible to stop Bush from pursuing his logic of war to the end
~ Jacques Chirac
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The problem lies with the agent who took our contracted player to many other Premiership clubs
~ Steve Gibson
I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility.
~ Phil Spector
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
~ Bertrand Russell
On fellow rapper Foxy Brown: We don't have a problem. I don't think about her. I don't care about her, because I don't deal with the devil.
~ Lil Kim
An’ there’s the usual problem of the drainage in the lower field, sorr. [The Fast Show]
~ Paul Whitehouse
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
~ Jason Patric
My family are really happy here at Liverpool and I am prepared to have my daughter with a Scouse accent, even though it is sometimes a problem for me!
~ Rafael Benitez
The problem with the word masticate is that most days people have such a small vocabulary that they think you are being rude when you use it!
~ Anonymous
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
~ Pope John Paul II
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
~ Arthur Miller
I don't think we've got a discipline problem. It's the players who are thick who are causing the problems [on Paddy Kenny getting into a punch up]
~ Neil Warnock
I learned the hard way of the need to face up to this medical problem, one that is dealt with successfully by many others on a daily basis
~ Charles Kennedy
America is very difficult; getting good food is a problem as health issues are not a high priority there it seems.
~ Peter Brock
If I go to the movies with Lesley, we will go to the 4pm show. Only three or four other sad people are there. Even then, that can lead to you laughing at something the other guy may not find funny and there's a problem
~ Gordon Strachan
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic
~ Carl D Anderson
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
~ Harry S Truman
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
~ Ann Beattie
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
~ Charles Darwin
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
~ Edmond Halley
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth [but is that through shock or their imminent attempt at words?]
~ Arthur Goldberg
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
~ Bill Vaughan
I have no problem with players being combative but there is a line they cannot cross and Santh crossed it. I hope he learns from his mistake.
~ Ranjan Madugalle
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. [and therein lies the problem?]
~ Abraham Flexner
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
~ Ronald Reagan
Honestly, I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the thick, the thin. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.
~ Angelina Jolie
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. [the so-called Problem of Evil]
~ Samuel Clarke
We have a problem in this country with political correctness - bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom.
~ Mike Newell
If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts.
~ James Surowiecki
It's a way of inspiring people in the sense that if we get started on the problem now then our contribution will be massive [on his Ministry of Food series]
~ Jamie Oliver
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~ Albert Einstein
Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world [talking about deficits that is]
~ David Hartman
There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
~ Dustin Hoffman
A fundamental problem in such studies stems from the long tradition that has regarded artistic productions as social facts.
~ Norman Denzin
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
~ Rene Cassin
He [Tony Blair] did offer me other jobs - I'm not going into the detail, but he did, and I felt I shouldn't accept them because I had pledged to myself first of all, but also to the Parliament and to the country that I would resolve this problem.
~ Charles Clarke
There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.
~ Wilson Greatbatch
'I did not see the whole. I only saw this rock ahead of me; I only saw this poisonous snake which I had to kill in order to take the next step. I only saw the problem directly in front of me. If I had seen the whole thing, I would have been too overwhelmed to have attempted this.'
~ Henry Morton Stanley
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~ Diane Abbott
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
~ Arthur Miller
Programming definitely requires a particular mindset, and normally the problem is working out what the program has to do, rather than actually writing the program once you've worked that bit out.
~ Paul Graham
I don't see having two England captains as being a problem whatsoever as long as both captains are pointing in the same direction.
~ Paul Collingwood
