Pressing Quotes

276 quotes by 237 authors

The only way to meet pressing social needs and be fiscally responsible is to cut the runaway Pentagon budget, which now almost equals the military… — Dennis Kucinich
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full… — Alexander Hamilton
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby… — Michael Parenti
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as… — Sylvester Stallone
Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep… — Kai Greene
I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some… — Alan Alda
Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will have to address itself more to content. . . .… — Will Eisner
You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized… — Julie B. Beck
I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it. — Dennis Franz
We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We… — George R. R. Martin
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the… — John Roberts
There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. — Plato
The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say… — S. D Gordon
Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power..... — Plato
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of… — Patricia Deegan
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs… — John F. Kennedy
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us… — Walter Pater
I support such a review, ... But the reality is that we don't need the results of a strategic study to know that there are… — Joe Lieberman
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them… — Brenda Ueland
Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing. — Thomas Hobbes

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