One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.
Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.
Después de algún tiempo, al amargado no le queda deseo alguno. No tiene voluntad ni de vivir, ni de morir. Éste es el problema.
My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.
I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.
FATE decides who you meet in your life, your HEART chooses who you want in your life, but your CHOICES decide who will stay
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
