Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

Alfred North Whitehead

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

Aldous Huxley

Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!

Albert Einstein

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

Alexander Graham Bell

Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it.

Adolf Hitler

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

Adolf Hitler

National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.

Abu Bakar Bashir

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

We don't know yet if they are human. We have to do some further examination to determine that,

We don't know why he was playing Russian roulette. But we have determined that's what he was doing.

We don't know whether you're going to have 100, 1,000 or 100,000. And without a means to evaluate the level of participation, there is no way to determine what impact including deer?would have on the harvest.

Aberjhani

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

Adrienne Rich

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

Adam Hochschild

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

Abraham Maslow

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Hassan Rouhani

We are determined to provide for the nuclear fuel of such plants inside the country, at the hands of local Iranian scientists. We are going to follow on this path.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.

Angelo Scola

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

Upon further investigation, they determined the person was involved with a fire.

Jimmy Carter

This would go a long way to deter any kind of temptation to fraud.

The proposal was just a reiteration of what the secretary of state laid out yesterday. It truly was not a proposal. What happens in Florida will be determined by the courts, not by representatives of these two campaigns.

This story is about the report. Let people read it and make their own determination.

Mike Wallace

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done.

Colleen Atwood

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

David Suzuki

Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible food and stable weather and climate? Surely the economy is the means to a better future, not an end in itself. Surely it must be subordinate to a rich, diverse ecosphere that sustains all life.

Sigi Schmid

We played with a lot of grit and determination. And we played smarter than we have before.

We played with a lot of determination, everyone on the team. We played teams that were more talented and had better players, but we were the better team. We just played real well together.

We played an excellent game. We had that determination we were not going to lose and that's what we need.

We played about as well as we've played all year in games one and two with a high level of execution, ... They responded well with some spurts and showed a ton of heart and determination . . . Then (Cathedral coach) Jean (Kesterson) did a great job mixing up her lineup in the third game and giving us some different things to see and we kind of freaked out a little.

Seinabo Sey

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

Tom Brokaw

Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.

I thought, 'This is crazy; I have ADHD,' ... I was determined that this was a problem that needed to be solved.