Determinative Quotes

#1. The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought

Bernard Bailyn

#2. I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative common experience, because states like the United States depend on the story of our wars for our ability to narrate our history as a unified story.

Stanley Hauerwas

#3. God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions.

Francis George

#4. Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Neil Jordan

#6. When everyone knows you're a monster, you needn't waste time doing every monstrous thing.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. How can we be a polis when 95 percent of us would rather watch aging housewives bicker on TV than express a well-formed opinion of our own?

Jade Chang

#8. I just loved EDM because I felt like it inspired dance and movement.

Lindsey Stirling

#9. Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

Frederick William Robertson

#10. The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

Karl Popper

#11. And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that will one day hate the United States.

David Letterman

#12. Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

Jim Talent

#13. Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.

August Verona

#14. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Eckhart Tolle