I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba’. So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does....

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

You think CERN is so critical to the earth’s future that we should be immune from moral responsibility?

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.

I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.

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

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

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.

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to...

The thing about being an artist,” Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, “is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your...

Kids instinctively know – although they will argue to the contrary – that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

Problems become unfit when you place them under your feet

I knew that meant we were done and that we’d smooth over the surface I’d just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples,...

On issues relating to taxes, you don’t always speak with one voice.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

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.

When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that’s a two-way street. It’s disappointing when it’s not.

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...

The ability to recognise and respect individual differences is the beginning of successful relationship

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,...

Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of...

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

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

It wasn’t really a loud-mouthed, hyperactive little pig-tailed blonde that made Carl cringe. It was what I represented. While his upbringing was battered humiliation, I was spoiled, doted on, and spoon-fed by the world. I...

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online...

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...

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

Everyone’s got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

Wish I could say it was a deviously clever move, but the truth is I’ve got grace management issues.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

There wasn’t so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

Young adult novels don’t shy away from the discussion of weight issues, and ‘Blubber,’ the tale of an overweight, not-so-sympathetic fifth-grader bullied by her peers, is a refreshing take.

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.

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...

I’m conservative on some issues, and I’m progressive on others.

We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y’know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, “for better or worse”, and...

Taking a break from digging into your own issues doesn’t make you unauthentic. It makes you sane.

There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

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...

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

To ease the pain, erase the anger.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this...

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

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...

There are at least two sides to every issue, and I like my issues sunny side up. I also like bacon and toast on the side. Are you eating what I’m saying?

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and ’70s fought for.

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