Decisive Quotes

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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be… — Joseph Epstein
There is in guerilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle. — Mao Zedong
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. — Melina Mercouri
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the… — Christian Lous Lange
Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement… — Janet Suzman
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is… — Adolf Hitler
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names. — Alex Ferguson
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen… — Herbert Marcuse
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who… — Fred Barnes
In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast… — G. C. Berkouwer
Climate change has happened because of human behaviour, therefore itâ€™s only natural it should be us, human beings, to address this issue. It may not… — Ban Ki-moon
If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are… — Franz Kafka
A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God — Michael L. Brown
In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the… — William Hague
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower… — Carl Andrew Spaatz
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… — Naomi Klein
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command. — Hunter S. Thompson

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