Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. I. Packer

There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

Isadora Duncan

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Rob James-Collier

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

Hannah Storm

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

Greg Graffin

If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

The lack of an extensive transportation network is enough to deter most large manufacturers,

Donald Rumsfeld

The investigation will determine that, but I've heard no indication that there was any conspiracy,

John Ashcroft

The INS must become a stronger deterrent to our enemies and a better servant to our friends,

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.

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.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

What we learn about wolverines from this effort will help us determine the species' status and management needs.

James Appathurai

There is a shared determination to push forward with the expansion of the mission.

David Thomas

The only way to determine whether those requirements have been met -- I mean the first step -- is obviously to see what they told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. But that's exactly where you run into the first catch-22.

There are four or five plays every game that will determine the outcome, and those plays are (usually) special teams. There's nothing worse than your offense going eight or nine plays for a touchdown, and then you kick off and see the other team go all the way with one play. That's demoralizing. We've come to understand the importance of special teams.

Gioconda Belli

Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

After further review, it was determined that it would be appropriate to grant humanitarian parole for this child.

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Some fear the machines will serve as a distraction to the fans and deter them from placing pari-mutuel bets. And the results of such machines have been mixed.

Specifically, in the exercise of due diligence with provisions of our vendor contracts, I felt this research and review was important in order to determine if any financial contributions had been made by GTECH.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

So that we can make determinations about the impact on the lands of increased production and determine what needs to be done in light of the very dry seasons we had anticipated in the past.

Loretta Lynch

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

Bode is one of those rare individuals who's not deterred by a lack of success. That doesn't seem to be part of his mindset.

Brent wrestled tough and determined to make the state tournament.

Boy, defensively we were just dynamite. That says a lot about our intensity and our will to win. We have just such a determined group of guys.

Hosni Mubarak

This election was not the end. What is important now is to realize the aspirations of the people and march forward. We will do this with an inalterable determination to pursue reform.

This doesn't deter us from doing a project. We have to go back and make sure everything is valued properly.

They share our determination to prevail and to see this through. NATO equally recognizes an obligation to them.

Dave Wannstedt

They were like all of us, me included, looking for someone to feel sorry for you. But that's the nature of the game. That game is not going to determine what type of season we have. That game is not going to be the determining factor of what happens in December. How we react to that game is going to determine what type of a season we have. And our guys have responded.

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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.