Deliberate Quotes

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.