Quotes of: Important-issue Keyword

but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long...

A Good Student

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the wor...

The Moon and Sixpence

A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most importa...

The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important�...

Steve Jobs

It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.

Yiddish

It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true nature when the issue comes nearer home. To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Ca...

Animal Liberation

Unfortunately, some family members are so psychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship, nothing will help. Now that you're an adult, take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself...

Your So-Called Life: A Guide to Boys, Body Issues, and Other Big-Girl Drama You Thought You Would Have Figured Out by Now

She paused and met his gaze straight on. “You should be seeing someone your own age, Troy Lee.” “Please don’t start that bullshit again. It’s not the issue and you know it.” “Really. What, pray tell, is the issue?” “We’ve been out...

Fall Into Me

Nothing has been as instructive in exploring the notion of authenticity as relearning the work of the great philosophers Aristotle and Plato. We are struck by their applicability to our work as we help companies and people develop their brands. Why d...

Tom Hayes

In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would b...

What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam & Modernity in the Middle East

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

The Designated Drivers' Club

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Double Trouble

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Experience and Education

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

Half Broke Horses

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

The Importance of Being Earnest

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

The Importance of Being Earnest

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

The Importance of Being Earnest

This is a work of memory -- facts have been altered. Names have been changed.

The Importance of Music to Girls