“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.” PeopleIfsMatterPastGrowsStuffWaterIssuesAliveGreatnessDivineLike YouGardenSeasonsBonesConcreteHarvestDead PeoplePlaying Around Author:T. D. Jakes
“Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.” NeedsFeelsPersonsSometimesPastTurnsCan DoWalksIssuesLike YouSafetyBest ThingsYou Can Do ItSexuallyGreat DayHave A Great Day Author:Kathleen Hanna
“On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.” IfsLooksPersonsHas BeensHandsAttentionCasesIssuesOur LivesCrazyCrimeSeriousLike YouToughVictimHarmHonestly Author:Bill James
“TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.” KnowsLooksKindTwoIssuesWonderfulTvsLike YouWaveBe GoodGentleGood DayBad DayEarthquakesWonderful DayTv CommercialGood Days And Bad Days Author:Dan Savage
“People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldSometimesCareEnergyStuffDifficultEnemyIssuesFocusLike YouMarriedRedHotForgivingNeighborPriestsCheeksButtonsTopicsWho CaresBeing MarriedWrong ThingsCelibacyTurn The Other CheekHot Topic Author:Lino Rulli
“I've always felt like you should love who you love - sexuality doesn't matter. It would be so cool in the future if it weren't even an issue to anybody anymore.” IfsShouldMatterWould BeFeltIssuesLike YouSexuality Author:Shay Mitchell
“As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.” PeopleBelieveStillsRealProblemAbleBlackPresidentWhiteIssuesImagineLike YouRacismBlack PeopleNo ProblemBetter OffReal Problems Author:Darryl Pinckney
“We're talking about everybody's free right to have choice. And so what we're also getting are interesting messages like you really need to obey the command of Allah and put a scarf on your head. And what we caution well-intentioned Americans and others to think about is whether the scarf matches their own values related to issues of honor and shame.” ThinkingNeedsWellsValuesChoicesInterestingTalkingIssuesLike YouHonorMessagesShameCommandRelatedCautionScarves Author:Asra Nomani
“See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.” BodyTermIssuesLike YouOvercomingWeightAddictionYour BodyOur RelationshipHealth IssuesOvercoming Addiction Author:Wayne Dyer
“In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.” IssuesFiveMinutesLike YouLaborElectionReportsProfessorsFive MinutesRepresentingElection DayI Like YouLabor Day Author:Ralph Nader
“I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues .., 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team ...'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from the internet. You certainly learn from people's opinions. I think you're going to get some of the negative a lot more than the positive, but I think you can learn from it.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsHardTodayOpinionIssuesTeamNew YorkLike YouInternetRedNegativeRootsUsaSiteBlogsNew York Times Author:Joe Buck
“That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGovernmentClassIssuesFiveLike YouTerribleRight NowNormalWesternNineOfficialsWestern WorldElected Officials Author:Edward Snowden
“I think a lot of people do have questions about life, 'What's the purpose of my life?', 'What's the meaning of my life?', 'Why am I here?' ... It's hard to find a place where you can discuss those issues. You can't go down to the pub and say, 'What do you think the meaning of life is?' But actually, most people have those questions, somewhere in the back of their minds. And if you can find a place where you can discuss it with a group of people who, like you, are outside of the Church, and it's a non-threatening, relaxed environment, quite a lot of people want to do that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantMindHardLife IsPurposeChurchIssuesEnvironmentGroupsLike YouMeaning Of LifeThreateningRelaxedPubs Author:Nicky Gumbel