Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Kafka

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

Erich Fromm

Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.

I looked in my linemen's eyes, and they had determination. That really lit me up inside. It is real good when the guys up front get that feeling. They just had a look I've never seen before. They all had the same look. After I saw that, I just like, 'It's going to be me and the safety all day.' That's what it was.

I looked in my linemen's eyes, and they had determination, ... That really lit me up inside. It is real good when the guys up front get that feeling. They just had a look I've never seen before. They all had the same look. After I saw that, I just like, 'It's going to be me and the safety all day.' That's what it was.

He's eligible tomorrow and we'll make that determination then. You don't want to make a roster move until you're 100 percent sure. It's looking good, though.

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.

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.

James Appathurai

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

Brent wrestled tough and determined to make the state tournament.

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.

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

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.

Martina Hingis

Probably I was a little more determined, even more hungry.

It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.

David Diehl

They're determined. They want to make a playoff run. They want to make a point that they're a team that can be a contender.

They're not freaking out, though, and I'm impressed with how neighbor is helping neighbor. I see resilience and determination.

Jasper Fforde

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.

Harold Rosenberg

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Helen Keller

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

Helen Keller

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Cassandra Clare

We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.

Richard Butler

I intend to pursue this matter in a very determined way.

Steven Morrissey

Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

Robert Burns

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Richard Serra

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

John Carroll

[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

Jimmy Fallon

There are reports that Kim Jong Un climbed North Korea's highest mountain. Kim Jong Un said all it took to climb that mountain was hard work, determination, and lying about climbing that mountain.