Famous Quotes & Sayings

All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

We are looking at expansion of inpatient and outpatient areas, ... as well as diagnostic services. Part of the process is assessing which services we need and how much of them we need. That will determine cost.

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.

There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

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.

We needed more poise offensively. We weren't determined enough to just hang on. If we have the ball, they can't score. It seemed like we lost our poise and would throw up about anything to try to win it all of a sudden.

Richard Carson

We needed to determine the value of the resource before it was damaged, and what should have been spent to protect it.

Ludwig von Mises

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its philosophy the individual is born into a collective and it is "natural" and proper for him to behave as members of this collective are expected to behave. Expected by whom? Of course, by those individuals to whom, by the mysterious decrees of some mysterious agency, the task of determining the collective will and directing the actions of the collective has been entrusted.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

Ludwig von Mises

It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor's contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.

Hans Jonas

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

Peter Wright

We get to determine our own fate. That is very exciting to me.

We can be proud of the way we played. They are a quality team, but they got lucky today. I think it was circumstances other than the players that determined the outcome of the game.

We will see if we can get him up to speed and practice will ultimately determine (his status for Sunday).

We've met quality standards ... I'm sorry, but you're talking $100,000 to determine if water is too soft.

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Josh Bernstein

We have Byzantine rules that determine who's eligible for what services,

We reviewed our own practices, and determined our policy as it stood was fair.

Jacques Chirac

We're very worried about the situation and determined to do everything possible to tackle the problem.

We're still trying to determine the motive, and right now that's still up in the air.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

With so few negative pre-announcements, many of the earnings should meet or exceed expectations, ... So it's what is in the forecasts that will determine the market direction.

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

Johnny Damon

We'd be kidding ourselves if this weekend wasn't going to determine the outcome of this season. It's going to come down to this weekend. It's the master plan. God's way. Yankees-Red Sox. We just need to win some games before that series starts.

The real purpose is to lay the groundwork to determine what we need to do with our buildings, what kind of shape they are in and what the future needs are. How much money do we want to put in our buildings, and what kind of shape do we want them to be in?