All Quotes

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
‐‐ Mary Garden

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.
‐‐ Ken Bruen

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
‐‐ Nora Roberts

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
‐‐ Caroline B. Cooney

I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
‐‐ Tara Brach

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I decided very early on that the way to make a difference in my life and in other people's lives was to give them services and products that are actually for the many and not for the few.
‐‐ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
‐‐ Ruben Blades

I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
‐‐ Caleb Cushing

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
‐‐ Jane Welsh Carlyle

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.
‐‐ Heinz Fischer

I declare that I am a bachelor.
‐‐ Julian Eltinge

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.
‐‐ Prem Rawat

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
‐‐ Josiah Warren

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
‐‐ Pete Seeger

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
‐‐ Donald Knuth

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.
‐‐ Monica Denise Brown

I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
‐‐ Rain

I deep sea fish a lot.
‐‐ John Entwistle

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

I deeply appreciate all the support and encouragement I have received from people all across India.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.
‐‐ Ernie Harwell

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions.
‐‐ Tim Kaine

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
‐‐ Ben Nicholson

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.
‐‐ Kevin Rudd

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.
‐‐ Sebastian Pinera

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
‐‐ Alice Walker

I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.
‐‐ Sean Brady

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.
‐‐ Brian Bosworth

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
‐‐ Naguib Mahfouz

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.
‐‐ Rick Boucher

I defend the Brazilian people.
‐‐ Romario

I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
‐‐ Christie Hefner

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
‐‐ Charles Olson

I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
‐‐ Hannah Mills

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
‐‐ Margaret Anderson

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.
‐‐ John Bradshaw

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
‐‐ Max Baer

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh

I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler