Problems Quotes

Four million surplus women. Four million sexually unsatisfied women, artificially creating a host of problems in order to excite or appease their senses. Not being able to embrace one man, they embrace humanity.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Even an ideal set of trade-offs must—and should—leave a whole spectrum of unmet needs, because the cost of wiping out the last vestige of any problem is leaving other problems in more dire condition. In short, trade-offs must be incremental rather than categorical, if limited resources are to produce optimal results in any social system as a whole.

The best is the enemy of the good.

In a land where so many have a right to air their opinions and where so many interest are bound to collide and have to be reconciled, unanimity can hardly be expected. We were agreed on the evils but differed on the remedies, and amidst this contention of parties, the very zeal and energy of the best citizens became damaging to the public interest.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.

In human affairs the solution to every problem contains within it the seeds of a new problem.

We shall either find a way or make one.

All advantages are attended with disadvantages.

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances … created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

Misfortunes never come singly.