Decided Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. (Socrates)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe. View quote
Whitney Houston
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. View quote
Whitney Houston
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
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. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. View quote
John Updike
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. (Bob Dylan)
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon. View quote
Mao Zedong
The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions that was the error of 1848 and 1849 but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. View quote
Ayn Rand
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. View quote
Tim Allen
I decided to run for governor because I got mad.... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely. View quote
Nicole Krauss
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. View quote
Andy Warhol
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence. (Winston Churchill)
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. View quote
Horatio Nelson
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. View quote
Neal Barnard
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs