Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Raymond

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyones money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Norman Tebbit

The mark of a single currency is not only that all other currencies must be extinguished but that the capacity of other institutions to issue currencies must also be extinguished...In the case of the United Kingdom, that would involve Parliament binding its successors in a way that it has hitherto regarded as unconstitutional.

Norman Lear

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Orrin Hatch

Because judges may not issue advisory opinions, judicial nominees may not do so either, especially on issues likely to come before the court. That rule has always been honored.

Merrill Markoe

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

Mason Cooley

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

Mason Cooley

Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

Mason Cooley

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

Michael Franti

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

Melody Beattie

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

Ted Nugent

There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

Ted Cruz

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

Theodore Roosevelt

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.

Malcolm Wallop

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

Malcolm Turnbull

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Malcolm Turnbull

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

John C. Maxwell

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

John Adams

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course. ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time.

Jim Yong Kim

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Emma Stone

You won't hear me saying I have no body issues because I wouldn't be human if I didn't.

John McCain

It's not social issues I care about.

John Hickenlooper

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

John Hickenlooper

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.

John Heider

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

Michael Anderson

The first thing to do is to get communications going between the different states. The jurisdictional issues will follow.

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

The first big issue is 'if', because a lot of people are still talking 'if' - and that's a fundamental misperception.

Ralph Nader

Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.

Shay Mitchell

I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.

Seamus Heaney

On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

Scott Cohen

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.