Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleister Crowley

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Alberto Gonzales

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Albert Einstein

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

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!

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 why he was playing Russian roulette. But we have determined that's what he was doing.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think a lot of that was just determination. We told them in the locker room before the game that we wanted to put some pressure on them (Dan River) and we were just successful with it tonight.

Colm Toibin

I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is out of the question. I would associate this with narcissism anyway, and I would disapprove of it.

Kofi Annan

The prevailing mood is one of optimism, ... The parties have proclaimed ... their determination to work together. At long last we can all sense a new wave of movement.

We will look at the letter, review it and make a determination within the 60-day period.

This was a group of guys with unbelievable determination to win this game. Toledo played their hearts out, but these guys would not be denied.

Vince Lombardi

There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything.

The passion, the determination and the heart that guy has is unbelievable.

Kathryn Harrison

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

We have given them leads. They'll have to determine if those people are viable suspects. That's a determination for the police, not this family.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work