Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Scott Peck

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

M. Scott Peck

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

M. Scott Peck

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

John Bolton

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

John Bevere

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

Roger Goodell

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

You could have problems you didn't think you would have.

You can work together. You don't have to own one. We're proving it today.

Greg Nickels

You can't solve a real revenue problem with rosy projections,

The U.N. has proved to be a useful tool for the U.S..

Brian Urquhart

(The U.N.) actually took a lot of trouble to protect him,

Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Gloria Steinem

Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.

Gloria Steinem

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

Harry Lorayne

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

J. K. Rowling

Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

J. K. Rowling

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

J. K. Rowling

Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.

J. K. Rowling

You are nearly there," said James. "Very close. We are...so proud of you.

J. K. Rowling

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

H. L. Mencken

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

H. L. Mencken

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

Greg Kinnear

Everybody's family has problems.

Grace Kelly

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

Grant Morrison

He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

Michele Bachmann

If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.

Michele Bachmann

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.