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Quotes About Issue

I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
~ Mandy Patinkin
The fundamental issues are treaties, power and capital. Are we able to be honest enough with ourselves to accept this? Do we want a settlement or not? The shape and direction of the country depends on how we act. This must become a political issue.
~ John Ralston Saul
I will communicate that issue to the countess." "Do that. Also communicate to her the part where I said 'fuck you.' Make sure you phrase it precisely that way.
~ John Scalzi
It's need that makes all the trouble.
~ John Steinbeck
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
~ Christopher Lasch
And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
~ Warren Farrell
When the dead are afraid, you know there's a big problem.
~ Unknown
To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.
~ Ayn Rand
The intellect does not recognise situations in life which have no issue.
~ Marcel Proust
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
~ Jerry Garcia
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
~ Alan Greenspan
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.
~ Thomas Frank
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.
~ John Quincy Adams
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.
~ Charles B. Rangel
Today's "issue" had come all the way down from the System level, where some pinhead wanted to tie each campus's funding directly to its graduation rates.
~ Unknown
We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.
~ Mark Steyn
The eighty-year-old scholar had openly criticised Bhindranwale for storing arms and ammunition in the Akal Takht, and had said that Bhindranwale's presence in the shrine was sacrilege. The hukmnama against Bhindranwale was never issued.
~ Unknown
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
~ Dan Brown
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.
~ Richard Lindzen
There's nothing wrong with understanding. Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there. My experience tells me that the only effective approach is looking people in the eye and saying, "If you want to change, do this.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
People sometimes ask me what length I look for in a method. To me length is not the issue. The key is the semantic distance between the method name and the method body. If extracting improves clarity, do it, even if the name is longer than the code you have extracted.
~ Martin Fowler
That raised an issue still familiar in modern electoral systems. Are Members of Parliament, for example, to be seen as delegates of the voters, bound to follow the will of their electorate? Or are they representatives, elected to exercise their own judgement in the changing circumstances of government? This
~ Mary Beard
the essential task of feminism is not to go looking around for a ready-made theory and then try to make it relevant to our (little?) "issue" or "problem". This is self-depreciating in the extreme, a fact that is obvious if one realises that feminism is cosmic in its dimensions.
~ Mary Daly
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck