Decisive Quotes

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

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.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

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.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

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.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

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.

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.

Direct threats require decisive action.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

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.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.