Addressing Quotes

#1. The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

#2. Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. You must forgive my cousin, Mr. Carroll; his manners are deplorable."
Colonel Fitzwilliam feigned offence and turned to the butler while addressing his cousin's barb. "Mr. Carroll and I have an understanding, don't we, man? He knows I prefer to walk in unannounced.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#4. No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Well, now, look at you, is that a halo? Did you get canonized while I wasn't looking? Am I addressing St. Stefan now?

L.J.Smith

#6. Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#7. Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Modest Mussorgsky

#8. My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Carlos Mesa

#9. The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Richard Dawkins

#10. The significance of prayer is not what we are asking but the Person we are addressing.

Kenneth D. Boa

#11. The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

Mariah Carey

#12. Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

Katie Hafner

#13. You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

Judi Bari

#14. Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. He steadied himself with one great hand against the city wall. He had told me he'd never stop growing. He'd meant it literally. What had I been addressing all these years? His finger?

Rachel Hartman

#16. I surmise that later generations will likely scoff at the means by which we are currently addressing pain as well.

Melissa Cady

#17. The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional problems as well as the military problems that have been unaddressed for centuries.

John Reid

#18. To those who say climate change is not caused by human activity or that addressing it will harm the economy, let's encourage them to go to college, too, and to study physics and to study economics, but for the rest of us, let's get to work.

Martin O'Malley

#19. I believe, that empirically informed approaches to the question have issued in more illuminating answers than the old armchair approaches. But I think that it would be a terrible mistake to give up on addressing normative questions in epistemology.

Hilary Kornblith

#20. I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

T.C. Boyle

#21. There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

Michael Bennet

#22. Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong
these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers.

Peter Drucker

#23. North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Mel Watt

#24. So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

Mike Huckabee

#25. I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

Randy Hultgren

#26. Today I am devoted to addressing all the little things about me and in my life that I have not mastered!

Iyanla Vanzant

#27. I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#28. Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

Shania Twain

#29. Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

Kevin Richardson

#30. I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

#31. The key to containing this unbalanced gigantism is not establishing ownership limits or enacting state regulations. The key lies in addressing those fundamental disorders within the souls of men that have taken us so far off course.

John Horvat

#32. All of us ... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

Gene Wolfe

#33. Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Richard Land

#34. When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Stella Adler

#35. Fragmentation is like classful addressing
an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

Paul Vixie

#36. The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.

Margaret Chan

#37. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#38. There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other, namely the ever-increasing size of the world's population

Chris Packham

#39. I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.

Tom Tomorrow

#40. And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

John Boehner

#41. Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice.

Kipchoge Keino

#42. As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics
without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately
the movement will be undermined.

Bell Hooks

#43. Species are being wiped out every day. Do we want to live with this or don't we? That is really our choice. And I think that human beings, by nature, want to preserve themselves. But right now, we're so preoccupied by other stuff, and we're not addressing the issues, which are our priorities.

Horst Rechelbacher

#44. Insult, like many such feelings, is experienced in the soul of the person addressed; it is not something that can be granted or withheld by the person doing the addressing.

Iain M. Banks

#45. We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

Jenny McCarthy

#46. You begin with the Problem, or the need you're addressing. Then you proceed to the Solution, your product or service that fulfills the need. The Market is the target customers to whom you will offer your solution. Finally, Business is all about the ways you're going to capture that market.

Chris Lipp

#47. You know, addressing my crazy by name doesn't exactly help me stay sane," I said. "Nothing can help you stay sane at this point, Mason," said Becks. "That ship has sailed.

Mira Grant

#48. You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to me. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#49. I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.

Carly Fiorina

#50. Too often they tell me to answer my doubts with prayer, which seems very much like addressing one's hunger by thinking of food.

Dave Eggers

#51. When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

Brene Brown

#52. I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.

Sally Kohn

#53. They hold their phones out like Hamlet addressing Yorick's skull...

Chase Novak

#54. The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.

Oscar Arias

#55. Who's there?" he called, then frowned. "Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?' is going to be instantly killed.

Cassandra Clare

#56. It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#57. Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#58. Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'

Kate Atkinson

#59. The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.

Mark Udall

#60. The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

Joe Biden

#61. Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#62. It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#63. Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

Joseph Lowery

#64. All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#65. Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Carl Levin

#66. If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

Amit Bhatia

#67. Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that a golf ball can hold more terrors than a spacious auditorium packed with people.

Bobby Jones

#68. O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

John Flavel

#69. You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#70. We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

John Sweeney

#71. The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

Elizabeth Warren

#72. I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

Ezra Miller

#73. Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other - in other words, they're using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other's support.

Mark Manson

#74. Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

William Weld

#75. It's really encouraging and inspiring to be around a gathering of so many people ... who really are committed to that vision. (While addressing the American Socialist Party, 2011)

Glenn Greenwald

#76. There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

Terry Tempest Williams

#77. All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#78. VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

Nathaniel Fick

#79. In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#80. Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

Bob Hawke

#81. Thus I suggest that prophetic ministry has to do not primarily with addressing specific public crises but with addressing, in season and out of season, the dominant crisis that is enduring and resilient, of having our alternative vocation co-opted and domesticated.

Walter Brueggemann

#82. I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Charles Spurgeon

#83. All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.

Stephen R. Covey

#84. More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Susan Stewart

#85. The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

Bruce Braley

#86. As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

Chris Van Hollen

#87. The things I was good at had no real application: addressing envelopes in bubble letters with smiling creatures on the flap. Making sludgy coffee I drank with grave affect. Finding a certain desired song playing on the radio, like a medium scanning for news of the dead.

Emma Cline

#88. In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Arne Jacobsen

#89. rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine

Michael Lewis

#90. Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it sounds like. In fact, if the Democrats do their job, it can just as easily become a platform for addressing the greatest issues of them all.

Thomas Frank

#91. His father always talked to him - so Seryozha felt - as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys that exist in books, utterly unlike himself. And Seryozha always tried with his father to act being the story-book boy.

Leo Tolstoy

#92. To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

Moby

#93. Amnesty is the magnet. Other magnets that you mentioned are anchor babies who get benefits in this country and employer deductions for employees, even if they are here illegally, which Mr. King is addressing.

Virgil Goode

#94. Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

Richard Branson

#95. It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

William Wilberforce

#96. New Rule: All Fox News employees must now refer to President Bush as "my liege". If they are going to treat President Bush like he's an infallible king, they need to start addressing him as if he was an infallible king. And they can do this by addressing him as "my liege".

Bill Maher

#97. But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Jay Chiat

#98. There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.

Solange Knowles

#99. Being trapped is just a position, not a fate. You get out of it by addressing and eliminating each part of that position through small, deliberate actions - not by trying (and failing) to push it away with superhuman strength.

Ryan Holiday

#100. Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

Thomas Carlyle