The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of… — William James Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Both personal experience and professional studies of social processes, after all, had led me to think that people rarely accomplish exactly what… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements. — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination. — Paul Allen Walker Copy Share Image
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act. — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult,… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
