Pressing Quotes
276 quotes by 237 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.
— Dennis Franz
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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
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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
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.
— Plato
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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
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Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.....
— Plato
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
— Thomas Hobbes
Who Wrote These Pressing Quotes
237 authors contributed a total of 276 Pressing Quotes, led by these top contributors: