Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

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.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Alex Karpovsky

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

Donald Rumsfeld

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Chuck Palahniuk

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Angie Martinez

Always keep things in perspective.

Mark Zuckerberg

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

Mary E. Pearson

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

Michael Dolan

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

Jonathan Burns

From our perspective, the transition is going quite smoothly overall.

Brian Smith

From our perspective it would be a positive.

Steven Lima

One of the reasons we don't understand sleep is that we haven't taken this evolutionary perspective on it.

John Simone

If we do the right things from a policy perspective, the results will speak for themselves.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Amartya Sen

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.