Pressing Quotes

276 Pressing quotes by 237 unique authors

The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban… — Michael Porter
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always… — Walter Rauschenbusch
Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he… — Jack LaLanne
You have to press against the pressure that’s pressing against you! — Joyce Meyer
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so… — Agnes de Mille
Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy. — Paul Reps
Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia,… — Rajiv Shah
That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start… — Mike Candrea
How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern. — James T. Walsh
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean… — Gerald May
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex, disorienting,… — Lauren Slater
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense… — Steven Johnson
The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men… — Yoshida Kenko
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is… — Richard Halverson
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed… — Pope Pius XII
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection. — Benedict of Nursia
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits… — Eric Clapton
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by… — Robert South
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here,… — Robert Forman Horton
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S. — Unknown Author
I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a… — Emma Thompson
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. — Joichi Ito
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for… — Edward Rutledge

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