Decisive Quotes

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We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word… — Eric Hoffer
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike
Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts or otherwise invade… — Ralph Neas
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development.… — Pope Benedict XVI
The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create… — John Paul Caponigro
President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every… — John F. Kennedy
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have… — Jimmy Carter
War remains the decisive human failure. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. — Andre Gide
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a… — Robert Delaunay
When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive. — Carly Fiorina
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right,… — Franz Kafka
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a… — Max Lucado
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. — Rosa Luxemburg
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. — Robert Wilson Lynd
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes

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