All Quotes

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
‐‐ Dan O'Brien

The decathlon is exclusive company.
‐‐ Ashton Eaton

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
‐‐ Daley Thompson

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.
‐‐ James Gray

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.
‐‐ Stan Freberg

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
‐‐ Ted Shackelford

The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
‐‐ Robert Scheer

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
‐‐ Sharon Olds

The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart.
‐‐ Craig Stevens

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
‐‐ Rick Moranis

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
‐‐ Donald Berwick

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.
‐‐ Haley Barbour

The decision of a majority of people in the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union is profoundly disappointing.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
‐‐ Frederic William Farrar

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time.
‐‐ Theresa May

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
‐‐ Barbara Olson

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
‐‐ Mark Kirk

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
‐‐ Matt Blunt

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
‐‐ Emil Ludwig

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.
‐‐ Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
‐‐ Jo Durie

The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The decision to use military force should always be one made with the utmost caution, with U.S. interests at stake, and with the consent of Congress.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.
‐‐ Joseph Rotblat

The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.
‐‐ Charles Soule

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.
‐‐ Andrea Hirata

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
‐‐ Douglas Kennedy

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
‐‐ Philip E. Berger

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
‐‐ Tabare Vazquez

The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
‐‐ Alan Smith

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
‐‐ Denis Diderot

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
‐‐ Anne Heche

The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.
‐‐ Sheri L. Dew

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
‐‐ Alice Waters

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.
‐‐ Ellen Key