Definite Quotes

423 Definite quotes by 340 unique authors

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite… — Napoleon Hill
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had… — Napoleon Hill
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the… — Augustus William Hare
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound… — Roland Allen
First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You… — Edgar Cayce
Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is… — Whitey Herzog
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not… — Carolyn Mackler
There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force.… — Jimmy Page
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky
I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people… — Ross Macdonald
That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to… — Harvey Mansfield
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless… — Emma Goldman
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If… — Paul Washer
I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel… — Bobbie Ann Mason
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My… — Yves Klein
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the… — Jack Spicer
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My… — BrenÃ© Brown
It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his… — James Joseph Sylvester
The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as… — Carl Schmitt
Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle… — Rudolf Rocker

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