Pressing Quotes

276 Pressing quotes by 237 unique authors

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
Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care… — Russ Feingold
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs — Jim Clyburn
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. — Erica Jong
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson… — Barney Kessel
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute. — Storm Jameson
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief… — Samuel Johnson
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,… — Rick Bragg
My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements.… — David Brainerd
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is… — Yehudi Menuhin

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