Agendas Quotes - Page 38

• Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves. My experience is that by practicing without 'shoulds,' we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any agenda except to be honest and kind, we assume responsibility for being here in this unpredictable world, in this unique moment, in this precious human body.

  Pema Chodron

  Responsibility, Unique, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.182, Shambhala Publications

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes. Judges must settle legal disputes, not pursue agendas. Judges must interpret and apply the law, not make the law.

  Orrin Hatch

  Government, Law, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think part of the whole agenda of being open for business is about making sure that people can get here and also get there.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Thinking, People, Whole

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just come to Brussels after a Council meeting. Do you know what happens? Every head of government holds his or her own press conference. They all say the same thing, in 24 languages: I was able to push through my agenda. And if the result is anything other than what they desired, the message is: Brussels is to blame. It has been this way for over 20 years. These messages stick with people, and that's deadly for Europe.

  Martin Schulz

  Government, Years, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get the kids, get the better job, get the better car, get the better house, get the promotion, get the office in the corner, get the kids on their way, get the grandkids, get the retirement watch, get the cruise tickets, get the illness, and get the heck out. That's it. That's a good life. But life has nothing to do with any of that. That is not our purpose in living. That is not the Agenda of the Soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Girl, Retirement, Jobs

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Memories, Moon, Impact

  9 Copy quote

• It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

  John C. Danforth

  Always Trying, Knowing, Inspire

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 189, September 19, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

  Paul Kurtz

  Enlightenment, Atheism, Secular Humanism

  8 Copy quote

• If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.

  Trent Lott

  Country, Strong, Moving

  "Transcript: Sens. Dodd, Lott on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

  Taryn Simon

  Support, Political, Critique

  Interview with David Coggins, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  America, Doe, Ends

  10 Copy quote

• I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

  Brett Dennen

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.gigslutz.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Body thinks it has an agenda that is important. And the Mind imagines that its agenda is vital to your survival. But the older you get the more you realize that it is the Soul's agenda, and only the Soul's agenda, that matters.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Thinking, Soul, Survival

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jun 06, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no
  agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

  Nick Saban

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  "Nick Saban: Sympathy for the Devil" by Warren St.John, www.gq.com. August 25, 2013.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.

  Yair Lapid

  Change, Issues, Majority

  6 Copy quote

• And please, please, lets us put mental health back on the top of our national agenda, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Prison

  7 Copy quote

• The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

  George W. Bush

  Philosophy, Roadblock

  4 Copy quote

• Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Leadership, Discrepancies Between, Bigs

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.106, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Children, Mean, Sacrifice

  52 Copy quote

• The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two.

  Claudia Kennedy

  Passion, Two, Lust

  4 Copy quote

• It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  4 Copy quote

• Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Morning, Government, Talking

  7 Copy quote

• The more you do speak from the heart, rather than thumping the agenda, people will listen or relate or open themselves up more.

  Drew Barrymore

  Heart, People, Speak

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 30, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  4 Copy quote

• While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Track, Goal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source