Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lake Bell

I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

Madonna Ciccone

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront.

Martin Heidegger

Being is an issue for one.

Mark Millar

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

Marvin Harris

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.

Nicholas Negroponte

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

Patti Smith

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

P. Chidambaram

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

Michael King

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Marla Maples

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

Mark Twain

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

Marianne Williamson

Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

Marianne Williamson

The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.

Marianne Williamson

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

George Carey

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

Christopher Eccleston

Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

Christine Maggiore

I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue

Chris Rock

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

Hans Blix

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

George Washington

The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.

George Orwell

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

John P. Kotter

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

John P. Kotter

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

John Milton

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

Norman Douglas

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Mike White

I used to have a road-rage issue.

Rick Ross

Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

Rick Santorum

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.

Rick Perry

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Hoda Kotb

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.