Quotes for All
There are few women in America that don’t want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world – real obesity problems and real hunger problems – to worry that much about a few pounds that I’d like to … Read more
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems Epictetus
I do think that the idea of writer’s block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it’s taking a lot of things that are not only real problems, but that are manageable, solvable problems if you look at them in an individual fashion, and lumping them under the umbrella of something mysterious and vague, … Read more
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude. Emile M. Cioran
What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid’s gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances … Read more
The film, ‘Aftershock,’ for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens. Eli Roth
If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem. Edward Norton
There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems. Edward James Olmos
It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive. Edward Goldsmith
I think global warming is a very real problem for our world. I’ve seen the changes that have taken place in the Antarctic, in the Himalayas, where the natural ice has sort of faded away, and there’s no doubt in my mind that we’re living in a strange world, a world which is not easy … Read more