The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
- Chinua Achebe
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other years later.
- Jodi Picoult
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.
- Jodi Picoult
This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.
- Isabel Allende
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
- Laurie Anderson
Because the problem with having tried something new and amazing was that you could never go back and take the same pleasure in the thing you used to enjoy. You could never erase the awareness that somewhere out there was a better experience you weren't having. You knew you were eating a canned biscuit after you'd tried a fluffy, tender homemade one with a crisp buttered top, the whole of it split open and doused with honey.
- Lisa Kleypas
The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.
- Lisa Kleypas
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
- Michael Baden
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
- Nicholson Baker
The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak
- Leigh Bardugo
Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences.
Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you.
Eliza: Yeah? Like what?
Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.
- Lauren Barnholdt
I'm just doing a favor for my brother. (Fury)
That's what I told myself, too. But the problem with family, they get you into shit and then abandon you to it. Or worse, get themselves killed off. (Sasha)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I should have thought of this years ago.
But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
- Dave Barry
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
- Dave Barry
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
- Joan Bauer
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
- Les Baxter
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn't annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth.... In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end upwordless, inarticulateby denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.
- Charles Baxter
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
- Charlie Bell
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
- Peter L Berger
She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
- Holly Black
That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.
- Holly Black
The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.
- Holly Black
The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'
- Selma Blair
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
- Danny Boyle
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
- Danny Boyle
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
- Brandon Sanderson
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
- Rory Bremner
The problem with self righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin. but not the sin of self-righteousness. When we have this attitude, though, we deprive ourselves of the joy of living in the grace of God. Because you see, grace is only for sinners.
- Jerry Bridges
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Bridges
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
- Peter Brimelow
The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.
- Nicholas Sparks
The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.
- Carroll Bryant
That's the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.
- E A Bucchianeri
The problem with communication....is the illusion it has been accomplished.
- George Bernard Shaw
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
- Charles Bukowski
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
- Charles Bukowski
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
- Emma Bull
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone
- Stephen Chbosky
...the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people..
- Stephen Chbosky
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
- Ken Burns
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
- Augusten Burroughs
That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
- Jim Butcher
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
- Jim Butcher
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
- Truman Capote
That's the problem with Peter," said Theresa.
"Only the one?" said Peter.
- Orson Scott Card
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
- Orson Scott Card
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when your finished.
- Benjamin Franklin
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
- Nick Cave
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- Lou Holtz
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
- Kelly Clarkson
the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!
- Pearl Cleage
I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
- John Cleese
This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.
- Bill Clinton
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.
- Terry Pratchett
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
- Ally Condie
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
- David Cronenberg
The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.
- Elisha Cuthbert
The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.
- Sophie Dahl
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
- Herman E Daly
The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.
- Iimani David
The problem with people like us is that we don't die properly.
- Andrew Davidson
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes.
- Ellen Degeneres
The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
- Ted Dekker
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
- Jacques Delors
It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
- Nelson Demille
The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
- Bree Despain
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
unspoken cosmic rule.
- Bree Despain
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
- Sarah Dessen
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
- Sarah Dessen
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
- Sarah Dessen
The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
- Philip K Dick
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
- Roddy Doyle
That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.
- Glen Duncan
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
- Walter Duranty
It's always about the money. And the problem with that is: if the people who love you are always weighing up what you cost, then you're never really sure who's got your back.
- Kirsty Eagar
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
- Roger Ebert
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
- Bob Edwards
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher
The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
- Susan Estrich
He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.
- Suzanne Woods Fisher
The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.
- John Wooden
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
- Al Franken
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
- Laurence J Peter
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
- Mark Shields
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
- David Gerrold
The problem with a small town is that when you don't buy into the powers that be there are very few other choices. It's like a play where there is only a "virtuous" lead, a villain, and bit players. Better to be the villain because you're not duped into believing you're in more than a play, and at least your name goes on the program.
- Catherine Gildiner
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
- Seth Godin
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
- Jonah Goldberg
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.
- Mira Grant
The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
- Lev Grossman
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
- Lev Grossman
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
- Michael Gruber
The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that people say and think, it becomes rather difficult to remember the good and noble arguments for everyone to be able to participate and decide.
- Johan Hakelius
That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
- Laurell K Hamilton
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
- Dashiell Hammett
The problem with the suspenders my mother bought for him is that he hasn't adjusted the straps since he got them. So instead of attaching somewhere around his midsection, the suspenders clip onto his pants three inches below his nipples. Now picture the suspenders attached to sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term camel balls.
- Chelsea Handler
This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
- Kristin Hannah
This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.
- Robert Harris
The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine.
- Joseph Stalin
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
- Sam Harris
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
- Michel Hazanavicius
I think about the problem with running from your trouble. The problem is in the stopping. The whole time you think you're getting away from everything, the trouble is running like mad, too, trying to catch up with you. And it doesn't slow down when you do--it keeps on sprinting. So when trouble finally reaches you, it hits you hard
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- Heather Hepler
The problem with churches of all sorts," he continued, "is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.
- David Holdsworth
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
- Anthony Minghella
The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.
- Barry Hughart
...the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
- Barry Hughart
The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.
- John Hull
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
- Miguel De Icaza
The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.
- Larissa Ione
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
- Lance Ito
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.
- Criss Jami
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
- Phillip E Johnson
A brick could be affixed to the collar of my shirt, because I've already got the weight of the world on my shoulders, so what's the problem with a little new construction to go on top?
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with ebooks is you can't get booger smears on the pages.
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn't going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they'll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
- Groucho Marx
That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.
- Stacia Kane
She wasn't considering it, not really....but he did have a point. It was her job. Save the cold, and the disgusting suggestion that she might actually turn a trick or two wasn't a half bad idea. That was the problem with Bump. Despite the fact that he was practically a textbook villain she expected him to grow a mustache to twirl any day- his ideas made sense.
- Stacia Kane
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
- Bruce Kent
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
- Tom Wolfe
I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
- Brett Kiellerop
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
- Jaron Lanier
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
- Richard Krajicek
The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
- Talib Kweli
That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.
- Aryn Kyle
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
- Shia Labeouf
That's the problem with survival of the fittest... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
- Wally Lamb
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.
- Derek Landy
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
- Hugh Leonard
The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed.
- C S Lewis
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
- Matthew Lillard
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
- Charles De Lint
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
- Jon Lovitz
The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.
- Tiffany Madison
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
- Marla Maples
The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
- Branford Marsalis
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
- James Randi
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters. Alice Healy
- Seanan Mcguire
That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.
- Brad Meltzer
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
- Paul Monette
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.
- Christopher Moore
The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you're anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal's office: "So what's this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?" You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.
- Lorrie Moore
All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don't suffer, but that we assume that only Third World Christians or heroic missionaries are suffering. My boys didn't know that they were suffering in Russia; they would feel it as suffering now.
- Russell Moore
The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
- Chloe Moretz
That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
- Steven Morrissey
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
- Paul Newman
The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.
- David Nicholls
This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.
- L J Smith
That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable....When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.
- L J Smith
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
- Donald Norman
The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.
- Joel Osteen
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
- Al Pacino
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
- James Cash Penney
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
- Bill Watterson
The problem with people is that they're only human.
- Bill Watterson
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
- D B C Pierre
That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
- Karl Pilkington
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
- Karl Pilkington
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
The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.
- Joe Queenan
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
- Gordon Ramsay
The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'.
- Maggie Stiefvater
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
- Frances Rodman
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
- David Lee Roth
The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.
- Dorothy Rowe
See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out.
- Arundhati Roy
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
- Jerry Rubin
The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband.
- Richard Russo
The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
- Adam Sandler
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another---it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
- John Scalzi
That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
- Alex Shakar
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
- Omar Sharif
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.
- Rolf Smith
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.
- Jon Stewart
The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.
- Courtney Summers
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor
The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure and so often, people are unsure is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
- Adam Thirlwell
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
- John W Thompson
The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run.
- Ronda Thompson
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
- Amor Towles
The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.
- Rachel Vincent
That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.
- J R Ward
The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn't bring ourselves to say.
Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel
- Frederick Weisel
The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
- Jonny Wilkinson
No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.
- Connie Willis
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
- Orrin Woodward
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
- Martin Yan
The problem with the church is the church.
- R Alan Woods
- Chinua Achebe
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The problem with marriage - or may be its strength - was that it spanned a distance, and you were never the same person you started out being. If you were lucky, you could still recognize each other years later.
- Jodi Picoult
The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.
- Jodi Picoult
This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.
- Isabel Allende
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
- Laurie Anderson
Because the problem with having tried something new and amazing was that you could never go back and take the same pleasure in the thing you used to enjoy. You could never erase the awareness that somewhere out there was a better experience you weren't having. You knew you were eating a canned biscuit after you'd tried a fluffy, tender homemade one with a crisp buttered top, the whole of it split open and doused with honey.
- Lisa Kleypas
The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way.
- Lisa Kleypas
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
- Michael Baden
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
- Nicholson Baker
The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak
- Leigh Bardugo
Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences.
Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you.
Eliza: Yeah? Like what?
Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.
- Lauren Barnholdt
I'm just doing a favor for my brother. (Fury)
That's what I told myself, too. But the problem with family, they get you into shit and then abandon you to it. Or worse, get themselves killed off. (Sasha)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I should have thought of this years ago.
But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
- Dave Barry
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
- Dave Barry
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
- Joan Bauer
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
- Les Baxter
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn't annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth.... In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end upwordless, inarticulateby denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.
- Charles Baxter
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
- Charlie Bell
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.
- Peter L Berger
She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
- Holly Black
That's the problem with temptation. It's so damn tempting.
- Holly Black
The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all.
I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.
- Holly Black
The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'
- Selma Blair
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
- Humphrey Bogart
The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
- Danny Boyle
The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
- Danny Boyle
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
- Brandon Sanderson
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
- Rory Bremner
The problem with self righteousness is that it seems almost impossible to recognize in ourselves. We will own up to almost any other sin. but not the sin of self-righteousness. When we have this attitude, though, we deprive ourselves of the joy of living in the grace of God. Because you see, grace is only for sinners.
- Jerry Bridges
The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Bridges
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
- Peter Brimelow
The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.
- Nicholas Sparks
The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.
- Carroll Bryant
That's the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.
- E A Bucchianeri
The problem with communication....is the illusion it has been accomplished.
- George Bernard Shaw
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
- Charles Bukowski
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
- Charles Bukowski
The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.
- Emma Bull
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone
- Stephen Chbosky
...the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people..
- Stephen Chbosky
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
- Ken Burns
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
- Augusten Burroughs
That's the problem with you nearly immortal types," I said. "You couldn't spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.
- Jim Butcher
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
- Jim Butcher
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
- Truman Capote
That's the problem with Peter," said Theresa.
"Only the one?" said Peter.
- Orson Scott Card
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn't have it, either. Government office should be received like a child's Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.
- Orson Scott Card
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when your finished.
- Benjamin Franklin
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
- Nick Cave
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
- Lou Holtz
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
- Kelly Clarkson
the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!
- Pearl Cleage
I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
- John Cleese
This is a practical country. we have ideals, we have philosophies. But, the problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence.
- Bill Clinton
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.
- Terry Pratchett
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins
I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
- Ally Condie
The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
- David Cronenberg
The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.
- Elisha Cuthbert
The problem with life is, we often do things that will ultimately be self-destructive and make us unhappy, yet in that moment it seems like the best idea in the world. You have to be careful of moments - they're tricksy things.
- Sophie Dahl
The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.
- Herman E Daly
The problem with at-home IQ tests is that too many people wouldn't understand the results. Calling customer service is a bad sign.
- Iimani David
The problem with people like us is that we don't die properly.
- Andrew Davidson
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes.
- Ellen Degeneres
The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
- Ted Dekker
The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.
- Jacques Delors
It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
- Nelson Demille
The problem with promises is that you've made one, it's bound to be broken.
- Bree Despain
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
unspoken cosmic rule.
- Bree Despain
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
- Sarah Dessen
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
- Sarah Dessen
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
- Sarah Dessen
The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
- Philip K Dick
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
- Roddy Doyle
That's the problem with being alive," she says, staring at the floor. "You've got to keep thinking of what to do.
- Glen Duncan
The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.
- Walter Duranty
It's always about the money. And the problem with that is: if the people who love you are always weighing up what you cost, then you're never really sure who's got your back.
- Kirsty Eagar
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
- Roger Ebert
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
- Bob Edwards
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher
The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
- Susan Estrich
He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.
- Suzanne Woods Fisher
The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.
- John Wooden
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
- Al Franken
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
- Laurence J Peter
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
- Mark Shields
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
- David Gerrold
The problem with a small town is that when you don't buy into the powers that be there are very few other choices. It's like a play where there is only a "virtuous" lead, a villain, and bit players. Better to be the villain because you're not duped into believing you're in more than a play, and at least your name goes on the program.
- Catherine Gildiner
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
- Seth Godin
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your ability to plot all the varied and wonderful things you might do to get even, or at least to make up, just get a smidgen for time lost to TV and yard work and house cleaning.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.
- Ellen Hopkins
The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
- Jonah Goldberg
The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The problem with people who have power is that they start thinking more about what it takes to keep that power than they do about what's right or wrong or just plain a bad idea.
- Mira Grant
The problem with growing up," Quentin said, "is that once you're grown up, people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
- Lev Grossman
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
- Lev Grossman
The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.
- Michael Gruber
The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that people say and think, it becomes rather difficult to remember the good and noble arguments for everyone to be able to participate and decide.
- Johan Hakelius
That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
- Laurell K Hamilton
The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
- Dashiell Hammett
The problem with the suspenders my mother bought for him is that he hasn't adjusted the straps since he got them. So instead of attaching somewhere around his midsection, the suspenders clip onto his pants three inches below his nipples. Now picture the suspenders attached to sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term camel balls.
- Chelsea Handler
This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
- Kristin Hannah
This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.
- Robert Harris
The problem with quotes on the internet is you never know if they are genuine.
- Joseph Stalin
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
- Sam Harris
This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
- Michel Hazanavicius
I think about the problem with running from your trouble. The problem is in the stopping. The whole time you think you're getting away from everything, the trouble is running like mad, too, trying to catch up with you. And it doesn't slow down when you do--it keeps on sprinting. So when trouble finally reaches you, it hits you hard
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- Heather Hepler
The problem with churches of all sorts," he continued, "is that so often they ignore the key teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, like the doctrine of love. So often we ask God to be on our side instead of asking that we be blessed enough to be on his. That said, the wheat and the tares must grow up together, and in the days of harvest they will be separated properly.
- David Holdsworth
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
- Anthony Minghella
The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.
- Barry Hughart
...the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
- Barry Hughart
The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.
- John Hull
I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.
- Miguel De Icaza
The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.
- Larissa Ione
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
- Lance Ito
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.
- Criss Jami
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
- Phillip E Johnson
A brick could be affixed to the collar of my shirt, because I've already got the weight of the world on my shoulders, so what's the problem with a little new construction to go on top?
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with ebooks is you can't get booger smears on the pages.
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn't going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they'll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.
- Jarod Kintz
The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
- Groucho Marx
That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.
- Stacia Kane
She wasn't considering it, not really....but he did have a point. It was her job. Save the cold, and the disgusting suggestion that she might actually turn a trick or two wasn't a half bad idea. That was the problem with Bump. Despite the fact that he was practically a textbook villain she expected him to grow a mustache to twirl any day- his ideas made sense.
- Stacia Kane
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
- Bruce Kent
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
- Tom Wolfe
I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
- Brett Kiellerop
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
- Jaron Lanier
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
- Richard Krajicek
The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
- Talib Kweli
That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.
- Aryn Kyle
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
- Shia Labeouf
That's the problem with survival of the fittest... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
- Wally Lamb
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.
- Derek Landy
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
- Hugh Leonard
The problem with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you so very often succeed.
- C S Lewis
There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
- Matthew Lillard
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
- Charles De Lint
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
- Jon Lovitz
The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.
- Tiffany Madison
The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back.
- Marla Maples
The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
- Branford Marsalis
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
- James Randi
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters. Alice Healy
- Seanan Mcguire
That was the problem with being desperate. It always made you sloppy.
- Brad Meltzer
The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.
- Paul Monette
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.
- Christopher Moore
The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you're already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you're anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal's office: "So what's this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?" You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.
- Lorrie Moore
All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don't suffer, but that we assume that only Third World Christians or heroic missionaries are suffering. My boys didn't know that they were suffering in Russia; they would feel it as suffering now.
- Russell Moore
The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
- Chloe Moretz
That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
- Steven Morrissey
The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.
- Paul Newman
The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.
- David Nicholls
This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.
- L J Smith
That was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable....When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness.
- L J Smith
The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
- Donald Norman
The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you're so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you're going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.
- Joel Osteen
The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
- Al Pacino
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
- James Cash Penney
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
- Bill Watterson
The problem with people is that they're only human.
- Bill Watterson
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
- D B C Pierre
That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.
- Karl Pilkington
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
- Karl Pilkington
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
The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.
- Joe Queenan
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
- Gordon Ramsay
The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'.
- Maggie Stiefvater
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
- Frances Rodman
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
- David Lee Roth
The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.
- Dorothy Rowe
See, ma'am, frankly speaking this problem can't be solved by us police or military. The problem with these tribals is they don't understand greed. Unless they become greedy there's no hope for us. I have told my boss, remove the force and instead put a TV in every home. Everything will be automatically sorted out.
- Arundhati Roy
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
- Jerry Rubin
The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be transformed into action. Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband.
- Richard Russo
The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
- Adam Sandler
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another---it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
- John Scalzi
That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
- Alex Shakar
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
- Omar Sharif
That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
- Alexander Mccall Smith
Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.
- Rolf Smith
The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too.
- Jon Stewart
The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.
- Courtney Summers
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor
The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure and so often, people are unsure is that breaking up involves persuasion. You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone. And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
- Adam Thirlwell
While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.
- John W Thompson
The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run.
- Ronda Thompson
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.
- Amor Towles
The problem with getting everything you want in life is that you're not prepared for disappointment when it comes.
- Rachel Vincent
That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.
- J R Ward
The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn't bring ourselves to say.
Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel
- Frederick Weisel
The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
- Jonny Wilkinson
No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.
- Connie Willis
The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
- Orrin Woodward
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
- Martin Yan
The problem with the church is the church.
- R Alan Woods
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