Issues Quotes

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.

~ Sara Sheridan

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.

~ Andrew Solomon

Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn't go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

~ Daniel Willey

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

~ Bethany Anne Miller

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

~ Elizabeth George

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he'd add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this, like he'd discovered the Caramilk secret or something.

~ Jo Ann Yhard

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

~ Steven Redhead

Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

~ E.m. Forster

Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered.

~ Germany Kent

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

~ Val Uchendu

Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t comply with what everyone says, judge out issues before you deal with them!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The majority of the common people do not realize that calling 911 may result in a stressed out armed police officer that has a range of medical issues and is taking potent prescription drugs being sent to out to them.

~ Steven Magee

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

~ Joyce Rachelle

The wisdom of hindsight would reveal that I had no clue how to find myself, no idea how to love myself, and no ability to be myself. Mix all of those three dilemmas, and you’ve created a cocktail that will knock anyone out. Even though I couldn’t name those specific issues that night, I did own where I was to the best of my ability. That’s often all we can do in a crisis. So that night, I looked myself in the eyes and said, “It isn’t supposed to be this way.

~ Stephen Lovegrove

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

~ Abiola Abrams

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.

~ Kate Avelynn

James is why I never left. I should have left.

~ Kate Avelynn

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.

~ Kate Avelynn

James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.”My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.

~ Kate Avelynn

God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.

~ Sunday Adelaja

They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don’t have to prove anything to me.

~ Alina Klein

You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks.

~ Lili St. Crow

What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong

~ Sunday Adelaja

To ease the pain, erase the anger.

~ Anthony Liccione

Don't judge a man by his controversies. Anyone could find him or herself dealing with issues. What matters is how they deal with it.

~ Constance Chuks Friday

The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.

~ Steven Magee

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

~ Steven Magee

Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And just as every person has their own void, their own haunt or their own unanswered question...they also have the power to turn it into a legacy every bit as profound as they make it.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?

~ Pawan Mishra

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

~ Carl Cohen

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

~ Quetzal

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars?Spend some time in Wisconsin.We'll blow your socks off.

~ Joan Bauer

When you are standing in the middle of a storm you have two choices: Pray to God that it goes away. Or, start praying to God that he gives you the wisdom to figure out why you're standing in the middle of a storm.

~ Shannon L. Alder