Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.

Henry A. Kissinger

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

Mahatma Gandhi

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

Mahatma Gandhi

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

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.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds.

Kurt Sutter

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

George Gillespie

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

Jon Meacham

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

John Bruton

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

John Cheever

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

Filippo Inzaghi

The key was our heart, determination. At one moment we thought we were out. Then I had some good luck on that rebound from the post.

These kids don't have the same drive and determination that I did.

You've got to have room to run, but it's a whole offensive unit thing, ... We have to be determined to make up our mind that we're going to get done.

All things being equal, you want people that want to play for you. The determination is, what does he have left in his game?

All the things that occurred that resulted in the determination ... occurred in another administration.

Dave Tippett

The dressing room felt pretty good, but you never know. It wasn't exuberance, just a determination -- a very determined mind-set ... that we were going to get something done tonight.

Condoleezza Rice

The French will have to make their own determination.

These guys represent the epitome of determination and hard work. They go to places like Phoenix to practice, their parents make 160-mile round trips ? they do what it takes.

These freshmen are determined and relentless, and they're just going to get better and better.

Jason Richardson

You can see right away that he's going to be a player, because he's already a player. He's got that focus and determination you've got to have, and he's got more than enough ability. It's just a matter of time before he's a star.