Determined Quotes
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Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
Joanne Rowling -
What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier -
The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.
Dr. John -
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
Russell Baker -
The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.
Henry Louis Gates -
Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.
Edgar Magnin -
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Gerry Sikorski
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Oscar Wilde -
In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.
William Wilberforce -
Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.
Brian Tracy -
We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.
Tilda Swinton -
Your rewards in life are determined by the kinds of problems you are willing to solve for someone.
Mike Murdock
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I could see my pitch count, so I determined that I would get a strikeout no matter what.
Daisuke Matsuzaka -
Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.
Mohammad Javad Zarif -
Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.
Nicos Anastasiades -
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes -
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
Will Self
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I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.
William Banting -
The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.
T. S. Eliot -
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.
Quentin S. Crisp -
In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.
Saul Leiter