Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ban Ki-moon

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Ban Ki-moon

Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore it’s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not be too late if we take decisive actions today.

Baltasar Gracian

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Aung San Suu Kyi

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

Arun Jaitley

Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

Asa Hutchinson

The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.

Azealia Banks

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Demi Lovato

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

Bryant H. McGill

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Lester Holt

The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.

Benjamin Netanyahu

With the Palestinians, I think we have started to move closer, also on the issue of reciprocity,

With the November elections, there's a lot of other issues people will be talking about.

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

Charles Taylor

There are other issues about how I got here.

There are two issues with Mat: emotionally he is not right and physically he is off the pace.

Martin O'Malley

There are times in Annapolis when a governor's support can move an issue over the goal line.

We're looking at things that are new and different, issues that weren't here 10 or 15 years ago. They are transforming California.

Rob Lowe

My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

Robert Casey

The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

Rick Perlstein

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

Make no mistake about it, we will make a big issue out of that in the (bankruptcy) hearings,

Make it your top priority in this next week to get these issues resolved.

MADD is not the white-hot issue it was in the 1980s, ... But we need to rebuild our organization with even more volunteers and a stronger structure than we had in the past.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Boris Kodjoe

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.

Bob Edwards

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Boris Yeltsin

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.

Brigham Young

The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.

Brennan Manning

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.

Jamie Dimon

One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.

Jamie Dimon

They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

Jamie Dimon

Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.