After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country. — F. David Mathews Copy Share Image
“Moral deliberation has to be somewhere in the brain, after all. It’s not going to be in the foot or the stomach,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“If we think of politics as an industry, we might delight in its new "labour-saving efficiency", but if we think of politics… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“Far-sighted, rational deliberation usually comes out in favour of one decision, while immediate inclination comes out for the other. As long as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make… — Timothy Ball Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
