All Quotes

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
‐‐ James Purefoy

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
‐‐ H. L. Hunt

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.
‐‐ Cecelia Ahern

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
‐‐ John Bytheway

Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding.
‐‐ Michael East

Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'
‐‐ Stanley Marcus

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
‐‐ Martin Amis

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
‐‐ Paul Tillich

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.
‐‐ Rob Portman

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
‐‐ Bernard Law Montgomery

Decisions are made by those who show up.
‐‐ Peter Roskam

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
‐‐ Bev Perdue

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.
‐‐ Brock Osweiler

Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.
‐‐ Robert P. McCulloch

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.
‐‐ Marvin Bower

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
‐‐ Jose Manuel Barroso

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
‐‐ Roger Wicker

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.
‐‐ Bradley Chicho

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.
‐‐ Ian Smith

Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

Declines in specific industries can never ignite a general depression. Shifts in data will cause increases in activity in one field, declines in another.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.
‐‐ Susan Glaspell

Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.
‐‐ Loretta Napoleoni

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
‐‐ J. Philippe Rushton

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
‐‐ Charles M. Schulz

Decorating has always been my hobby.
‐‐ Lee Radziwill

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
‐‐ Peter York

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

Dedicate a lot of your time creating Vines and try to post daily.
‐‐ Lele Pons

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
‐‐ Hannah Arendt

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.
‐‐ Nick Woodman

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

Dee Dee got the name 'The Ramones' from Paul McCartney. McCartney would call himself Paul Ramon when he checked into hotels and didn't want to be noticed. I liked it because I thought it was ridiculous. The Ramones? That's absurd!
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.
‐‐ Tommy Ramone

Deed, not words shall speak me.
‐‐ John Fletcher

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
‐‐ Sophocles

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass