Issues Quotes - Page 15

Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

Whenever we criticize ourselves, we compound the issue.

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves

The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing.

Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.

As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue.

It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark.

We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.

If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.