Famous Quotes & Sayings

The good thing about how the party responded is there's a very considerable sense of unity and purpose about it and determination not to keep being involved in navel gazing, we've done enough of that.

Atal Vajpayee

The government is determined to keep this peace,

Henry Waxman

We seem to be paying a heck of a lot of money for these ships. I'm trying to determine if this is a wise use of resources.

Stockwell Day

We seem determined to outpace the Scandinavians and the Dutch for social change.

Jalal Talabani

the government should take measures for an honest investigation to determine how failures doubled the casualties.

Iris Apfel

I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

Ivan Krastev

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.

David Schneider

The question that comes to my mind is, how much of a deterrent is it?

The question of shortage will be determined by how soon (we) get on line.

Edie Campbell

The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.

Gary Jennings

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

Alex Ferguson

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Claude M. Bristol

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

Claude Monet

It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again.

Claude Monet

I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

Daphne du Maurier

here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

Dan Miller

Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.

Cornel West

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

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.

Marcus Garvey

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.

Ada Yonath

Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

This should be determined by China's real conditions.

Kevin Martin

This short trip will determine our whole season I believe.

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.

The players know where they went wrong and are determined that it won't happen again. Having worked so hard to shake the losing habit from previous years, it's not somewhere they want to get back to in a hurry.

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.

There are lost people out there that will never be accounted for, ... But we can determine if they're here or not.

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.

Dave Tippett

The players are determined and they're finding ways to win. They push toward it without pushing the panic button.

There comes a time when you need to sweep (doubleheaders) in order to get into the state tournament. This stretch of games will probably determine if we go to the state tournament or not.