All Quotes

The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
‐‐ Bob Kerrey

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
‐‐ Paul Krugman

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Michael Arrington

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.
‐‐ Mohnish Pabrai

The problem of a rising population destroying more than four tons of soil for every human already alive needs to find its way into corporate board rooms if we are to enjoy future financial, economic and political stability.
‐‐ Allan Savory

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.
‐‐ Gerhard Domagk

The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
‐‐ Aaron Ciechanover

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
‐‐ Gabriel Lippmann

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
‐‐ Carl Friedrich Gauss

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
‐‐ Gary Wolf

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
‐‐ Max Lerner

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
‐‐ Jacques Delors

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
‐‐ Romano Prodi

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
‐‐ Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
‐‐ Imelda Marcos

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
‐‐ Patricia Riggen

The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something.
‐‐ Nirmalya Kumar

The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.
‐‐ Michael Crapo

The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world, with the dollar becoming the central currency after the 1930s, the whole world economy shifted.
‐‐ Robert Mundell

The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
‐‐ Tom Coburn

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.
‐‐ Jan Hammer

The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
‐‐ Rachel Maddow

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
‐‐ Antonio Damasio

The problem that we've had is four media companies run media, globally. And some say they're on the Right and some say they're on the Left; look, they're all afraid of losing Ford as a client. So they're all, by definition, huge companies that are going to be inherently conservative.
‐‐ Shane Smith

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.
‐‐ Richard Cobden

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.
‐‐ Todd Rundgren

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
‐‐ Major Owens

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
‐‐ Leon Krier

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
‐‐ Klaus Schulze

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

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
‐‐ Louis Freeh

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.
‐‐ J. D. Hayworth

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
‐‐ Pat Robertson

The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
‐‐ Francis Maude

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.
‐‐ Jim DeMint