I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world.… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people,… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat,… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
These [religious ideas] are given out as teachings, are not precipitates of experience or end-results of thinking: they are illusions, fullfilments of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter.… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an… — John Vockler Copy Share Image
I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent… — David Popenoe Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It is urgent to show ourselves at the side of our compañeros in San Marcos Avilés. The threat is immediate. The Committees… — Gustavo Esteva Copy Share Image
“Everything seems urgent until I sit down to write. Suddenly nothing else matters. It's only when I stop, that it's a problem… — K T Bowes Copy Share Image