Determinable Quotes

#1. The size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Mark Twain

#2. What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Kano Jigoro

#4. John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

Andre Previn

#5. The will is always near, dear, though the feet vary.

Emily Dickinson

#6. I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Tab Hunter

#7. After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman.
Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.

Joan Nestle

#8. Good generalship is a realization that ... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#9. When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

Wes Borland

#10. I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

Wilhelm Keitel

#11. I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Joyce Brothers