Deliberate Quotes

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

— Mason Cooley

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

— Michelle Stuart

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

— George C. Marshall

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

— Margaret Thatcher

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Fast takes longer when you hurry. Keep calm and saunter on.”

— Mike Dooley

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

— Tennessee Williams

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

— William Gaddis

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

— K. Anders Ericsson

Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art…

— Sun Tzu

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

— Isaac Asimov

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

— Sissela Bok

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

— Daniel J. Bernstein

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's…

— Jamaica Kincaid

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept…

— Stockwell Day

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military,…

— Eric Alterman

In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational…

— Judith Butler

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white…

— Stan Brakhage

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole…

— Francois Rabelais

If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the…

— Ben Goldacre

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the…

— Clayton Christensen

There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global…

— Richard A. Falk

The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected…

— Seumas Milne

I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the…

— Michael Jackson

Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of…

— Rolf Potts

There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose…

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by…

— Joseph Butler

If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow…

— Daniel Webster

“34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of touching and caressing…

— James C. Dobson

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

— Aristotle

“A product should be made intentionally”

— Sunday Adelaja

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

— Anonymous

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

— Napoleon Hill

Faith is far more a deliberate action than a confident feeling.

— Anonymous

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

— Heraclitus