Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible. — Keegan Connor Tracy Copy Share Image
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project.… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement. — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To… — Sir John Woodroffe Copy Share Image
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And… — John Waite Copy Share Image
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here,… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Think only of what you desire, and expect only what you desire, even when the very contrary seems to be coming into… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word. — David Gest Copy Share Image
No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
