Decisive Quotes
With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to arms was made.
Hideki Tojo
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.
Christian Lous Lange
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Max Weber
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Thom Mayne
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.
Hassanal Bolkiah
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
Eugenio Montale
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Edward Grey
Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.
Novak Djokovic
I'm happy with the vote and the support. I'm very glad that it is so decisive. It will enable me to be a president for all of the people.
Michael D. Higgins
The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
Yoshihiko Noda
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
Fred Barnes
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
Graham Nash
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.
Roger Wicker
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
Joe Baca
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille