Pressing Quotes
276 quotes by 240 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
— Horace
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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
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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
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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
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There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
— Barry Lopez
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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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
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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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