Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

Susan Stewart

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

My goal is to make sure (children's) books address a whole range of emotions, ... There are too many books that are too sweet, too saccharine. Everyone is happy, everything is good, everything is fine. And that's just not real life.

Marsha Blackburn

My hope is that we're going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.

My hope is that people will want to talk to the community in a meeting and then address issues afterward,

Maybe this is one way to move the federal government. It's a ridiculous way to be addressing the problem to go state by state, receiving threats from the government saying it's illegal, and yet states are doing it anyway. It just shows how desperate they are to come up with anything to reduce drug prices for their citizens.

Now the union has raised the issue of workplace stress, and we're working on a solution to that too, ... The work done in call centers we all agree is tough and the people that do this work face a hard job. The question is, how can we address issue of job stress and still provide customers with the service they want and that they deserve?

Now that we know what we have we can start to address specific areas that we need to improve on. I think we're still going to add a couple more players, but I'm real happy with this class.

Clint Hurdle

Obviously, the one inning got away from him. He didn't throw strikes. He can fine-tune that, and for him to take the next step, that's an issue he's going to have to address this season. It's always been a little bit of a rock in his shoe, the walks at times, especially the quick ones, the four-pitch ones.

Obviously, the DOE likes to see towns address those issues as much as possible.

Mark Johnson

Obviously, one of the issues they are trying to address is making the $10 bill more difficult to counterfeit. All of the changes are anti-counterfeiting features.

Obviously a plea bargain isnt an option, as long as there's nothing on the table to address the mental health issues that are so apparent with Andrea, ... Given that, the only other option is to go to trial. I dont believe there will be any meaningful negotiations in this matter short of going before a jury.

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats.

Getting rid of the incompetence at the top. We're never going to address the school finance problems, health care issues, in any meaningful way if we don't change the leadership.

Jacques Chirac

France is ready to back the idea of an extraordinary meeting of heads and states of government to address those crucial issues on which the future of the Union, and each of our countries, depends,

For something as dramatic as that act, the punishment in no way fits the crime. I'd say historically we've done a horrible job of addressing juvenile crime, which is why these young people are growing up to become adult offenders.

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I don't think a lot of these new products are big bets. Most of them are experiments in an attempt to address the changing consumer dynamics.

I don't think you could call it a public address system, ... It's a speaker coming from the token booth.

I expect ministers and governors will discuss steps taken to address supply and efficiency issues, as well as technical measures such as the improvement of data availability.

I don't think it was really balanced in pointing out what's going on, ... To talk about Durham and then go to High Point and focus on what they're doing, I thought, was out of bounds. It didn't give the community credit for what it's doing to address the issue.

I don't think parents address the whole child. I think they fragment and they focus on education, and they neglect the social emotional side of child rearing.

Andy Reid

I'll address him on Wednesday and that's between T.O. and myself.

Ben Bernanke

I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.

Mary Szybist

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

Leon Panetta

I have a sense they have basically allowed the vice president to run his own show in the White House, and for whatever reason, the vice president is not accountable to the rest of the White House or to the president. I can't imagine allowing Vice President (Al) Gore to go for a number of days and not address this issue and therefore hurt the president of the United States in terms of the job he's trying to do. The first priority in the White House is not the vice president. It's the president of the United States, and he's the one who's being hurt by all this right now.

I have an incredibly gifted staff, very caring -- it truly is a family. In a meeting to announce I was leaving, I had written up my remarks, practiced them, but when it came time to address everyone, it didn't matter...there were a lot (of tears) welling up.

I felt like the city manager and council were working to be fair and upfront with employees, ... I feel like we were addressing problems with the employees.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.

Molly Antopol

I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.

Philip Gourevitch

I can't imagine trying to second guess what George Plimpton would do, ... The magazine has this tremendous tailwind moving it along, but there also has to be room to reconnect to a new time. These new articles will have a distinctive flavor and will address themselves to the world at large.

Richard Boucher

I can't program every step of the way of what would, we would hope, be a coordinated series of steps. But the intention is to go to the next round of talks and to begin addressing these issues in a way that's appropriate for the beginning of the process.

Rod Parsley

I formed Reformation Ohio to address spiritual and moral needs. I believe we must equally focus on both.