Quotes of: Problem-solving Keyword

Try not to move around too much so you don't bleed again. The bandages aren't that thick and blood will soak through pretty quickly." "No problem," he says. "Shouldn't be too hard not to move around as we run for our lives.

Angelfall

This is where the will to grapple with our hard and pressing environmental problems begins: in relationship to something other that you love beyond any utility, beyond any logic.

American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural. 'The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

Infected Connection

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

I could tell by their audible gasps that the people on the beach were jealous of me when I found five shark's teeth. Locating them wasn't really the problem, but pulling them out of my leg was.

It Occurred to Me

But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word

I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

I had to quit my taxi cab driving job because I had no way to get to work. The problem was I kept calling myself to come pick me up.

I Should Have Renamed This

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumer...

The Right to Be Lazy

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.

Shadow's Edge

I don’t drink coffee. Sorry, I don’t mean to burden you with my personal problems.

The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other side of the table, rather than one for everyone at the table.

Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

The scope of my problem will easily fit in the scope of my rifle. Too bad true love has to come with a mother-in-law.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…

The Light Fantastic

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...

The Lady in the Lake

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's ...

Love Is Mortal