Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Ryan

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Paul Hawken

There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the reinstatement of cultural primacy over corporate hegemony, and a rising demand for radical transparency in politics and corporate decision making. It has been said that environmentalism failed as a movement, or worse yet, died. It is the other way around. Everyone on earth will be an environmentalist in the not too distant future, driven there by necessity and experience.

Pau Gasol

The coach has put a lot of trust in me to make good decisions in the post.

Paul Allen

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Jurgen Habermas

I would in fact tend to have more confidence in the outcome of a democratic decision if there was a minority that voted against it, than if it was unanimous... Social psychology has amply shown the strength of this bandwagon effect.

Rachel Maddow

John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.

Newt Gingrich

Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.

Noam Chomsky

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Martin Filler

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Niklaus Wirth

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Nicos Anastasiades

I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

Matt Damon

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.

Mary McCarthy

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

Mary McCarthy

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Marvin Bower

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Marvin Bower

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Nicholas Sparks

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

Nicholas Sparks

Don't let fear govern your decision.

Luke Zeller

Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

Michael Jackson

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

Michaela Dorfmeister

There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.

Michel de Montaigne

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

Michel de Montaigne

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

Michael Nesmith

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

Marianne Williamson

I'm haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make. The kind of world we'd create makes me want to cry sometimes.

Marianne Williamson

Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.

Marianne Williamson

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Mark Victor Hansen

You make the decision with vision and god makes the provision.