Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is great research. We are honing in now on things people can measure to determine snow-pack stability. The more we can make tests like this (in the field) . . . the more likely we are to be able to predict avalanches.

They drill it in our head that special teams could determine the outcome of the game.

They don't show anything but strength and determination to do what they love. And the fact that we can be a part of that and share our experiences with theirs and come together with a positive message for young people ? that's special.

Jamaal Magloire

They had a stronger effort and they were determined to win the game.

Barry Gibb

This place will always be the spiritual home for the Cashes. My wife, Linda, and I are determined to preserve it, to honor their memory. We fell in love with it; it's an incredible honor for us. We plan to use the home to write songs because of the musical inspiration.

Michael Baker

This measure will provide a strong deterrent to those who might be tempted to steal fuel,

Joseph Rotblat

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Jacques Chirac

The republic is completely determined to be stronger than those who want to sow violence or fear, ... The last word must be from the law.

Jonathan Turley

There isn't any question in my mind that this operation violated federal law. And once you determine that federal law was violated, you ... reach a very troubling set of related conclusions.

It's just going to be first 200 meters that determines the race for me.

It's kind of comical that they think something like that will really deter you from playing good that night.

It's kind of a war in shadows, where the rights and laws for the future are being determined now.

It's a tough decision. It should be. A lot is determined how we practice during the week,

It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.

It's a big game. It will determine seeding.

It was determined it was within the boundaries, ... We didn't think we needed to go through the process again. We felt like it had been laid to rest at that time.

It was determination and a lot of focus. We just learned from those mistakes of the past, where we let some of them slip away.

Gertrude Stein

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Gordon B. Hinckley

But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

Gerry Adams

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

Herman Melville

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

Henry David Thoreau

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Jerry Della Femina

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

Esther Hicks

But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.

Erno Rubik

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Etty Hillesum

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Etty Hillesum

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Etty Hillesum

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Erwin McManus

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

Erwin McManus

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.

Helen Keller

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Cassandra Clare

We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.