Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Vilsack

I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.

Tom Monaghan

No matter what an individual decides to become, hard work and determination is very important in today's competitive world. You may also encounter hardships along the way, but you must not get discouraged and you push on in order to fulfill your goals.

Todd Akin

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Joseph Lowery

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Mary Renault

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Martin Heidegger

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Marshall Field

I was determined not to remain poor.

Marilyn Monroe

For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.

Nicki Minaj

Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take

Nicki Minaj

Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

Nicki Minaj

Now it's me & my time, it's just me in my prime

Nicki Minaj

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

Nicki Minaj

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes.

Nicki Minaj

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

Mother Teresa

We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

John Newman

I think positivity also brings determination and wanting to explore more and wanting to do more with your life. Because if you come to that point of having to think about your life in that way you don't want it to be negative.

John O. Brennan

You always debate with yourself about whether or not you made the right decision. And you have to then give the person that you're working for your best judgment based on your understanding of the facts, but also the calculus you use to make a determination about what's the best way to go forward.

John Templeton

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

John Stott

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.

John Philip Sousa

I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue—or rather by vice—of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines

Paulo Freire

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

Philip Sidney

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Petra Kelly

The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...

Pharrell Williams

As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea.

All of them (the players) just sticking at it and never conceding and showing real determination.

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Eckhart Tolle

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

The market is so efficient that the performance of a fund is determined by the niche it's in rather than who's managing it,

The market seems to be determined to pass 70 dollars.

The mentality of this team is to look at any situation like this and just step out with a determination to win the day, and that?s what they did.

Hermann Hesse

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

Henri Nouwen

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

James Redfield

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.