Edgar Snow Quotes

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

Edgar Snow

• Decision
• Dignity
• Megalomaniac

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• I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Family
  • Decision
  • Thought

• You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Dignity

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Decision
  • Thought
  • I Can

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Time
  • Decision
  • Quit

• I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Better
  • Name
  • Dignity

• Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Education
  • Decision

• There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Decision
  • Waiting
  • Down

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Family
  • Honor
  • Dignity

• Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Why
  • Health

• I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • May
  • Night

• In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Decision

• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  

  Bernard Law Montgomery
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Decision

• Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Up
  • Peace
  • Decision

• You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Long
  • Money
  • Decision

• Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder

  

  William Bratton
  • Helping
  • Police
  • Investigation

• I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Men
  • Would Be
  • Avalanches

• Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

  

  Edgar Snow
  • Decision
  • Dignity
  • Megalomaniac