Issue Quotes
1900 quotes by 1526 authors
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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated…
— Bell Hooks
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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a…
— Virginia Woolf
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One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something…
— Christopher Ryan
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I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.
— Dennis Kucinich
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,…
— Thomas Pynchon
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I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t real.†I stopped,…
— Kiersten White
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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
— Wallace Stegner
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When you have an emotional reaction to what you see, you are judging. That is your signal that you have an issue inside of yourself…
— Gary Zukav
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Even at the time, I realised this couldn't be right, that this interpretation didn't fit with the rest of the lyrics. But that wasn't an…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will…
— Dallas Willard
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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular…
— Pablo Neruda
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[Lighting a cigarette] Well, I'm not here to impinge on anybody else's lifestyle. If I'm in a place where I know I'm going to harm…
— Frank Zappa
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Another thing I take issue with are people who take their dogs on "play dates," or even worse, people who choose to dress their dogs…
— Chelsea Handler
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But really, the term “forgive and forget†doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always…
— Meg Cabot
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The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose…
— Amy Chua
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
— R C Sproul
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I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political…
— Ronald Reagan
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And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
— Augusten Burroughs
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(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue…
— Denzel Washington
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