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"Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do." »Mencius
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"The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something." »L. Ron Hubbard, Book: Dianetics 55
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"How much I love every thing that is decided and open!" »Jane Austen, Emma
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"The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal" »Sir Compton MacKenzie
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"We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all." »Publilius Syrus
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"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt." »Joseph Heller
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"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot"." »Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic
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"Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot." »Terry Pratchett
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"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity." »George Ade
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." »Napoleon
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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground." »Unknown
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"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I'll live as I believe." »Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All
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"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most." »May Sarton
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"our fate has already been decided for us, the only thing we can do is stand strong and face our destiny head on" »Bryan Thomas
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"One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market... and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that." »Eric Schmdit
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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided." »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent." »Winston Churchill
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"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent." »Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." »Socrates
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"I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!" »Anonymous
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"For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have." »Woody Allen
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." »Arnold Bennett
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught." »Georgia O'Keeffe
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"If you have decided to change the world, don't read the books about the dimensions of the world! Be like a meteorite; strike the world with your ideas with utter courage and with infinite fearlessness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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