Pressing Quotes

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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban… — John Boehner
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There… — Bill Maher
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,… — Henry Beston
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots.… — P.G. Wodehouse
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the… — Ambrose Bierce
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. — Barry Lopez
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you… — Joel Osteen
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and… — Vaclav Klaus
The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind. — Maude Barlow
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on… — Michael Crichton
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The 21st century will be the Asian century. This also means that Asians will be expected to provide greater leadership to solve global challenges, including… — Kishore Mahbubani
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound… — John Dryden

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