Determinations Quotes

#1. True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

Franz Cumont

#2. The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.

George Washington

#3. You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

LeCrae

#4. [Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations.

John Carroll

#5. When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Steven Squyres

#6. We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage.

Alice Becker-Ho

#7. If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong.

Tana French

#8. The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

Samuel Johnson

#9. These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.

David Hume

#10. We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Chris Hardwick

#11. Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#12. I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

Ashton Kutcher

#13. These three classes of problems-determinations of significant fact, matching facts with theory, and articulation of theory-exhaust, I think, the literature of normal science, both empirical and theoretical.

Thomas S. Kuhn

#14. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Edwin Arnold

#15. How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

Albert Einstein

#17. A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don't you know that a donkey can't do but braying, a wolf can't do but howling, a horse can't do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can't do but telling lies?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

Antonin Scalia

#19. A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

William Godwin

#20. Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Doug Ose

#21. Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant

Napoleon Hill

#22. Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#23. God was alone when He made His decrees, and His determinations were influenced by no external cause. He was free to decree or not to decree, and to decree one thing and not another. This liberty we must ascribe to Him who is Supreme, Independent, and Sovereign in all His doings.

Arthur W. Pink

#24. Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Philip Sidney