Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Barkin

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

Paul Ryan

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

Paul Goodman

The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Justin Amash

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

Judd Gregg

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

Lisi Harrison

Those fruity drinks better have a lot of caffeine in them or I'll never make it through World Issues.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

Paul R. Ehrlich

It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption we can deal with. The standard cure for a stuttering economy is to go out and buy an SUV and three more refrigerators. That's obviously not the way to go.

Lily Cole

I've always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don't know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.

Leon Panetta

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues.

Learned Hand

It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

Mitch McConnell

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

Mitch McConnell

Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Mark Krikorian

The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.

Mark Batterson

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue

Miguel de Unamuno

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

Nicholas D. Kristof

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

Nicholas D. Kristof

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Mo Ibrahim

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

R. D. Laing

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

Nelson Mandela

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Rachel Maddow

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

Jodi Picoult

For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

Kenneth R. Miller

I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.

Kenneth Lay

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

Keanu Reeves

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.

Kinky Friedman

I see an issue I like, and I support it.

Marek Belka

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.

Mardy Fish

If I never had any mental health issues, there's no doubt in my mind I'd still be playing,

Marcus Mumford

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.