Agendas Quotes:

Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.

- Achim Steiner

topic: World, Agendas, Environment, Geneva, Hub

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

- Adyashanti

topic: Love, Moving, Agendas

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

- Alan Cumming

topic: Kids, Agendas, Piercings, Endearing

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

- Alan Keyes

topic: Military, Agendas, Accepting

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Agendas, Records

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Culture, Agendas, Preaching

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: Self Love, Agendas, Live For Yourself

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Romance, Fragility, Agendas

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

- Allen West

topic: Agendas, Republic, Who We Are, Antithesis

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

- Allen West

topic: Agendas, Care, Politics, Control Of Your Life

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

- Alveda King

topic: Government, Quality, Agendas, Entitlement Programs

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Agendas, Urban

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: Political, Confusing, Agendas, Political Agendas

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

- Angela Davis

topic: Agendas, Movement, Quests

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

- Anish Kapoor

topic: Artist, Agendas

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

- Arnold Kling

topic: Eugenics, Agendas, Politics

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Teeth, Generations, Agendas

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

- Barack Obama

topic: America, Nuclear, Agendas, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Terrorism

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

- Benazir Bhutto

topic: Agendas, Aim

I have no particular career agenda.

- Benjamin Bratt

topic: Careers, Agendas, Particular

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

- Bernard Goldberg

topic: Doe, Agendas, Politics, Brokers

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

- Bharati Mukherjee

topic: Writing, Agendas, Exotic

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

topic: America, Doe, Agendas

If you are supposed to be villainous and have some sort of agenda, I like the idea of delivering that kind of character in a perfectly well-mannered way.

- Bill Nighy

source: "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

topic: Character, Ideas, Agendas, Well Mannered

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

- Billy Collins

topic: Writing, Discovery, Agendas

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

- Bob Goff

source: FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Oct 14, 2014

topic: Jesus, People, Agendas

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

- Brenda Lee

topic: Agendas, Able, Talent

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

- Brian Mulroney

topic: Agendas

The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.

- Bryan Fischer

topic: Agendas, Fundamentals, Constitution

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Moving, Space, Agendas, Unified

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

source: Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

topic: Mean, Law, Agendas, Triviality, Inverse

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

- Carl Bernstein

source: "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.

topic: News, Agendas, Mainstream, Emergence, Ranting And Raving

Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is what kind of services they need, and how and when they want those services delivered to them. And in fact, that is just the beginning.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Technology, Needs, Agendas

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

- Carolina Herrera

topic: Book, People, Agendas

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

- Charlie Daniels

topic: America, People, Agendas

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

- Chris Matthews

topic: Emotional, Desire, Agendas

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

- Christopher Landsea

topic: Views, Agendas, Global Warming

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

- Clarence Clemons

topic: Names, Agendas, Way, Accolades

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

- Curt Weldon

topic: Media, Prejudice, Agendas, Mainstream Media, Media Bias

There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.

- Darren Criss

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Fans, Agendas

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

- David Byrne

topic: Writing, Agendas, Stuff

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

- David Price

topic: Political, Agendas, Facts, Political Agendas, Intertwined

We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done.

- Deborah King

topic: Needs, Agendas, Done

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

- Dick Morris

topic: Political, Agendas, Sides, American Politics

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

- Douglas Wilson

topic: Agendas, Claims

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

- Edward Ruscha

source: "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

topic: Agendas, Social

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

- Edward Zwick

topic: Philosophical, Stories, Agendas

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

- Elizabeth Joan Smith

topic: Religious, Leader, Agendas, Religious Leaders

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Agendas, Television, Politician

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Struggle, Issues, Agendas

Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

- Erik Qualman

topic: Media, Water, Agendas, Porcupines

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

- Frank Press

topic: Transition, Agendas, Smooth

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

- Gary Ackerman

source: "Rep. Gary Ackerman Wants To Tread On Tea Party License Plates In Arizona" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

topic: Government, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas

When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

- George Barna

topic: Opportunity, News, Agendas, Prioritize, Paralyzed

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

- Gerry Adams

topic: Equality, Issues, Agendas

I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

- Gwen Ifill

topic: Thinking, Agendas, Unions, Inaugural Speech

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

- Hannibal

topic: Views, Personality, Agendas

To me, if a heterosexual has a right to do it, then I have a right to do it. And if it's important to the gay youth - who are now setting the agenda - then its important to me.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Gay, Important, Agendas, Gay Pride

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

- Heather Mills

source: "Heather Mills: SAVE THE PIGS!!!!!!!!! And Oh Yeah, I Love Paul". www.justjared.com. March 15, 2007.

topic: Trying, Agendas, Behinds

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Political, Agendas, Actors, Political Agendas

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

- Jackie DeShannon

topic: Agendas

There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.

- Jakaya Kikwete

source: During President Hu Jintao's visit to Tanzania, February 16, 2009.

topic: Understanding, Why Not, Agendas, Mutual Understanding, Why Now

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

- James Baker

topic: Agendas, Live By

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Spiritual, Political, Agendas, Passing On

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership

- Jeff Miller

topic: Agendas, Democrat, Plans

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

- Jillian Michaels

topic: People, Trying, Agendas

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

- Jim Clyburn

topic: Real, Agendas, Today, Homeland Security

Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

- Jim Talent

source: "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

topic: Interesting, Insightful, Agendas

Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

- Joel Salatin

topic: Data, Agendas, Way

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Secret, Agendas

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

- John Engler

topic: Agendas, Importance

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Organization, Political, Agendas, Arafat, Political Agendas

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

- John Pilger

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Understanding, Messages, Agendas

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Pockets, Agendas, Election

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

- Jonah Goldberg

topic: Thinking, Needs, Agendas

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

- Joseph Bayly

topic: Abortion, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas

Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

- Joseph Sobran

topic: Mean, Thinking, Agendas

Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

- Joseph Stowell

topic: Kindness, Agendas, Complement

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

- Juan Williams

topic: Fighting, Agendas, Immigration

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

topic: Badass, Agendas, Worldly Wisdom

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

- Katharine Graham

topic: Agendas, Matter, Journalism

This is about Floridians saying whats most important to them and making sure that we create an agenda that we can drive and deliver back in Washington, D.C. So its very exciting.

- Katherine Harris

topic: Important, Agendas, Exciting

An agenda is not a bad thing.

- Kathy Ireland

topic: Agendas

A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last Parliament.

- Kenneth Clarke

source: "Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

topic: Europe, Depth, Agendas

Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda.

- Kenny Guinn

topic: Agendas

So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

- Kevin Mitnick

topic: Locks, Agendas, Becoming, Confidentiality, Becoming The Best

Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Gay, Agendas, Made, Anti Gay

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda.

- Lauren Weisberger

source: Lauren Weisberger (2009). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

topic: Focus, Agendas, Want, Focus On Yourself

When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough.

- Leonard Jacobson

topic: Mind, Agendas, Holding On

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

- Louis Farrakhan

topic: Black, Way, Agendas, Electorate

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

- Lucy Powell

topic: Meaningful, Government, Agendas

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.

- Madeleine Albright

topic: Country, Agendas, World

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

source: "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

topic: Agendas, Tables, Gains

The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.

- Madeleine M. Kunin

source: "Women Decide" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

topic: Agendas, Wade, Erode, Roe V Wade

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

- Marcus Brigstocke

source: "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

topic: Agendas, Goes On, Accepting

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: People, Agendas

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

- Maria Bartiromo

topic: Knowing, Agendas, Facts

Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: People, Forgiving, Agendas, Forgiving People

The Jews control Hollywood and use it to promote their own agenda.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Use, Agendas, Hollywood

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

- Maurice Strong

topic: Development, Agendas, Please

Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.

- Max Lucado

topic: Fashion, Trying, Agendas

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

- Melinda Gates

topic: People, Birth Control, Agendas, South Asia, Sub Saharan Africa

Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.

- Melissa de la Cruz

topic: Fun, Having Fun, Agendas

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

- Meshell Ndegeocello

topic: Bisexual, People, Agendas

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

- Michael Franti

topic: Media, Diversity, Agendas

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Goal, Agendas, Want

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

- Michael Porter

topic: Leader, Agendas, Needs, Good Leader

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

- Michelle Bachelet

topic: Issues, Government, Agendas

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

- Monica Ali

topic: Children, Way, Agendas

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

- Nate Silver

topic: Data, Tvs, Agendas

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Outcomes, Agendas, Debate

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

- Paul Davies

topic: Cancer, Agendas, Cunning

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

- Paul Kurtz

topic: Atheism, Enlightenment, Agendas, Secular Humanism, Humanism

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

- Pete du Pont

topic: Thinking, Agendas, Shapes, Times Of Crisis

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

- Randall Terry

topic: Christian, Leader, Agendas, Christian Leaders

A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.

- Rani Mukerji

topic: Mean, Mind, Agendas

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.

- Richard Allen Epstein

topic: Agendas, Wealth, Progressive, Explicit, New Deal

We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.

- Richard M. Cohen

topic: Freedom, Issues, Agendas

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

- Rick Larsen

topic: Real, America, Agendas, Real Change

So I shamelessly say, no, I want [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: People, Heartfelt, Agendas

I'm not afraid of having an agenda. I do have an agenda. It's a positive agenda.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: Agendas, Not Afraid

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Rights, People, Agendas

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

- Sam Brownback

source: Interview with Tom Bevan, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Agendas

That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that moral foundation will lead to social chaos and destruction.

- Scott Lively

topic: Gay, Different, Agendas

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

- Scott Weiland

topic: Air, Stories, Agendas, Sensational

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

- Shepard Smith

source: "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

topic: Agendas, Journalist

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

- Stanley Fish

source: Stanley Fish (2015). “Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education”, p.360, Princeton University Press

topic: Ideas, Political, Agendas, Recruit, Political Agendas

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

- Stephanie Zacharek

source: "'Monster'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2003.

topic: Monsters, Agendas, Polemics

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

- Tammy Bruce

topic: Acting, Agendas, Politics

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.

- Thomas J. Sargent

topic: Lag, Estimating, Agendas

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

- Tom Daschle

topic: Minorities, Agendas, Matter

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

- Tom Peters

topic: Design, Agendas, Should

When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.

- Tony Evans

topic: Christian, Understanding, Agendas

A true friend is someone who is always there for you, with no agenda other than the friendship itself. We rely on our friends to lift us up in bad times, to keep us grounded in good times, but most importantly, to be there for us when we need nothing at all.

- Tonya Hurley

topic: True Friend, Agendas, Needs

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

- Tsem Tulku

topic: Eyebrows, Agendas, Different

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

- Vanilla Ice

topic: Yesterday, Goal, Agendas, Yesterday Is History

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Country, Liberty, Agendas

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

- Walton Goggins

topic: People, Agendas, World

You are free to love without an agenda

- William P. Young

topic: Agendas, Same Love, Shack, Shack Book

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.

- Youth Lagoon

source: Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

topic: Writing, Agendas, Strategy

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

- Amitai Etzioni

source: Amitai Etzioni (1993). “The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda”, Crown

topic: Simple, Agendas, Faces, Simple Solutions

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

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Thinking, People, Agendas

I know how models are built, because I build them myself, so I know that I'm embedding my values into every single algorithm I create and I am projecting my agenda onto those algorithms.

- Cathy O'Neil

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Agendas, Algorithms, Embedding

I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.

- Dominique Browning

topic: Desire, Different, Agendas

I care more about an agenda than story and character.

- Ivy Meeropol

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Character, Stories, Agendas

ACA is advancing an agenda of dramatic and necessary change in how medical care is delivered in the U.S.

- John E. McDonough

source: Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

topic: Aca, Necessary Change, Agendas, Advancing

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

- June Diane Raphael

topic: Meaningful, Would Be, Agendas, Postpartum

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

- Keith Rabois

topic: Agendas, Should, Employee

The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his view of the world and the person to which the secretary of state would function.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Views, President, Agendas

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

- Kenneth Ehrlich

topic: Music, Agendas, Feels, Words And Music

Since I have no agenda and nobody tells me what to do I get to say anything I want to and I like it very much when my forum allows me to broach subjects to the public that have never been done before.

- Marc Morrone

topic: Say Anything, Agendas, Done, Forums

There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.

- Mick Barr

topic: Writing, Agendas, Want

I don't want to be one of these filmmakers that hit you over the head with my agenda or my opinion. I just want to take you down the 50-yard line and let you form your own opinion of what this controversy is about.

- Ric Roman Waugh

topic: Yards, Agendas, Lines

We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.

- Sallie McFague

topic: Thinking, Religion, Agendas

A Western writer came up to me and said, how come nobody at this demonstration spoke of German unity? I told him, because it isn't on the agenda. People were interested in having another, better GDR, another, better socialism.

- Stefan Heym

topic: People, Unity, Agendas

I think [Pope] Francis intends to forge ahead with his reform agenda.

- Sylvia Poggioli

topic: Thinking, Reform, Agendas

We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.

- Ted Nordhaus

topic: Agendas, Voters, Caps

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

- Thomas de Maiziere

topic: Political, Agendas, Want, Taking Advantage

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

- Bobby Morley

topic: Race, People, Agendas

I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.

- Arlene Dickinson

source: Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

topic: Blessed, Mind, Agendas

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

- Michael Jai White

source: "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

topic: Reality, Views, Agendas

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

- Michel Martin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Moving, Agendas, Helping

If [Donald Trump] is got a program and an agenda and an infrastructure and all of that that he's going to do, let him come forward.

- Michel Martin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Agendas, Program, Trump

Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with

- Charles Correa

topic: Attitude, Years, Agendas, Snail

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

- Patrick Cockburn

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Government, Turkeys, Agendas, Kurds, Shia

The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.

- Peter Dale Scott

source: Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall (1998). “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition”, p.174, Univ of California Press

topic: Media, Political, Agendas

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

- Damian Green

source: "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2106.

topic: Agendas, Being The Best, Prime

Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

- Dean Spade

source: "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

topic: Support, Agendas, Pay

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

- Robert Stacy McCain

topic: Political, Agendas, Moral, Political Agendas

Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.

- Roma Tearne

source: Roma Tearne (2008). “Mosquito”, Europa Editions Incorporated

topic: Agendas, Invisible, Grey

To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

- George Voinovich

topic: Agendas, Vote, Conspiracy, Understatement

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

- Taryn Simon

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

topic: Support, Political, Agendas

There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

- Jay Sean

topic: Perfect, Agendas, Wells, Perfect Date

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

- Jim Goldberg

topic: Attention, Agendas, Ignored

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

source: 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

topic: Leadership, Discrepancies Between, Agendas, Discrepancies

My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant.

- Kid Ink

source: Source: www.hotnewhiphop.com

topic: Agendas, Never Change, Relevant

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

- Jaron Lanier

source: "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

topic: Technology, Self, Agendas

The Democratic Leadership Council has named Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to design a plan to help define an agenda to the Democratic party. Although Bill said today, in his experience, whenever Hillary enters the picture that's when the party ends

- Jay Leno

topic: Party, Design, Agendas, Democratic Leadership, Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.

- Adyashanti

source: Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Running, Reality, Agendas

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.] Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.

- Jeff Sessions

source: "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

topic: Views, Tilt, Agendas, Kissinger

When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda.

- Penn Jillette

source: Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

topic: Trying, Agendas

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

- Jerry Garcia

source: Source: medium.com

topic: Our World, Battle, Agendas

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Responsibility, Agendas, Today, Great Responsibility

Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.

- Alex Gaskarth

topic: People, Agendas, Realizing, Live For Yourself

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

topic: Wings, Agendas, Addresses, Right Wing

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

- Philip Kitcher

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Agendas, Research, Problem

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in the mainstream media - not because of any agenda or deliberate dissimulation, but simply because it's filtered and comes very often from someone whose judgment I might not trust in other circumstances.

- Pico Iyer

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Media, Years, Agendas, Mainstream Media

Nevertheless, I have no political agenda whatsoever, even though some might think the contrary.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: Source: themuslimtimes.info

topic: Thinking, Political, Agendas, Political Agendas, Nevertheless

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

- Cornel West

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Kings, Black, Agendas, Frederick Douglas

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Political, Usual, Agendas, Political Agendas

The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Heaven, Agendas, Earth, Social Policy, Many Paths

Labour completely accepts and recognises the vote to leave the EU. The question is what is the agenda for that process and that needs to be held to account in Parliament now and that means it needs to be open to a vote.

- Theresa May

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Mean, Needs, Agendas

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

- Dan Quayle

source: Appalachian Journal, Volume 16, 1988.

topic: Political, Important, Agendas, Gavel

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Agendas

The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Simple, Keys, Agendas, Repairing

The secret of our success is found in our daily agenda.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Wrestling, Secret, Agendas

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Secret, Agendas, Persons

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

- John C. Maxwell

source: Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

topic: People, Secret, Agendas

You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Moving, Book, Agendas

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

- George W. Bush

topic: Philosophy, Agendas, Roadblock