Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nobody's made a determination that he's to be deported. There is no deportation order.

We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn Swann is Western Pennsylvania.

I saw a very determined, focused look in his eye that we are going to get this done.

Our publisher is an incredibly determined guy. He saw it as a symbolic thing. He sort of willed it to happen.

My son has come up always determined to make it. He has always been a role model, always taught to be leader. He's never settled for second best. He's always strived to be No. 1.

Bernice King

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of joy and very focused.

Bernice King

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full of joy and very focused.

Albert Bandura

It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

Annie Leibovitz

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

Conrad Black

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

Al Groh

Well, there are some internal issues that we're doing a little investigation on, ... When we've culminated that process and finalized what that means, I'll make a determination on some people's status.

Alex Trebek

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Debi Thomas

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

Douglas MacArthur

In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.

Doug Collins

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

Don King

If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

Doug Ose

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Douglas Adams

WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

Dorothy Allison

I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.

Dale Earnhardt

But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

Cordell Hull

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Daniel Pipes

Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

Daniel Boone

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Daniel Boone

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

Cory Booker

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

Cory Doctorow

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

David Friedrich Strauss

The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.

Confucius

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

David Limbaugh

While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.

Dalai Lama

You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.