Quotes of: Environmental-problems Keyword

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

If you’re a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Life isn't as complicated as it seems. There's a solution for every problem you have. Seek and you will find them!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

What's the problem?" "You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

Beyond the Darkness

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

Blood of the Fold

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.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

...His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware of things but are also, very frequently, aware of being aware of them.

Bertrand Russell

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.

The Book of Air and Shadows

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Frank Press

At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

Dan Stevens

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this ag...

Julia Roberts

I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that go...

Joss Whedon

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames ...

Rob Manuel

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez