Decisive Quotes

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Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and… — John Boehner
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.… — George W. Bush
Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, we must not waver. — George W. Bush
Direct threats require decisive action. — Dick Cheney
President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of… — Dick Cheney
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. — Carl von Clausewitz
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to… — Alister E. McGrath
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their… — Winston Churchill
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more… — Miyamoto Musashi
To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in persevering prayer. It means… — Ole Hallesby
There is only one decisive victory: the last. — Carl von Clausewitz
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is… — Carl von Clausewitz
Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision. — Bernhard Langer
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my… — Haim Ginott
It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it,… — George Washington
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit… — H. L. Mencken

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