Decided Quotes

• We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Decided
  • Difficulties
  • Self-purification

• I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.

  

  Norma Deloris Egstrom
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Silence

• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Decided
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Great
  • Actor

• When his dream proved to be more than he could handle, he didn’t become discouraged. He simply recognized his limitations and decided to live happily within them.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Dream
  • Decided
  • Discouraged

• Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • School
  • Mad
  • Blame

• A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Decided

• I decided to be the best and the smartest.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Decided
  • Smartest

• Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Doing
  • Something
  • Somewhere

• In the end we went to the railroad station, as he suddenly decided he would have to go. We were just in time to see the last lights of the train disappearing. Once again Hoffmann left the house too late, and so I couldn't even say good-by to him. Perhaps I am taking too dark a view, I hope I am, but he is not coming again for another two weeks.

  

  Eva Braun
  • I Hope
  • Lights
  • Railroad

• What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Music
  • Decided

• I have no idea. I just saw it on TV myself. Whatever he's decided, he hasn't told us.

  

  Bob Harlan
  • Decided
  • TV
  • No Idea

• I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Three
  • Beats
  • Radiohead

• We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Know
  • Right
  • Pushed

• Our first single wasn't put out by any big-name record company. We had been playing in clubs for a while and we wanted to put out an EP. None of the record companies would have us. They told us that our type of rock and roll wasn't happening. We decided to show 'em they were wrong, so we recorded the stuff on our own and put it out on our own private label, Bludgeon Riffola Records. When it started to sell a lot of copies, the record companies 'suddenly' discovered us. It was strange, but we felt vindicated.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Single
  • Discovered
  • Label

• I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Together
  • Parents
  • Reason

• Acting under the authority granted me by the North Atlantic Council, I have accordingly decided to terminate with immediate effect the air campaign, which I suspended on June 10.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Authority
  • Effect
  • Air Campaign

• After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Band
  • Years
  • Decided

• I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • People
  • Team
  • Reporter

• I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Decided

• He got out of the car. He stood out in the heat. I knew he was trying to organize himself. Like a messy room that needed to be cleaned up. I left him alone for a while. But then, I decided I wanted to be with him. I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Killing
  • Organize
  • Cleaned Up

• I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Decided

• She’d decided she’d try to stick it out until halftime when she saw a face that made her scream and jump off the sofa.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Decided
  • Scream
  • Sofa

• Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Death

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