Decidedly Define Quotes & Sayings

In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg. — Sonia Shah

We sate on the terrace. Again gazing at the moon. I don't understand women's obsession with the moon, lunatics in the most literal sense.

~ Aarush Kashyap — Kirtida Gautam

Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within
to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not. — Lewis H. Lapham

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication. — Trevor Dunn

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't. — Lawrence Lessig

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? — Nick Denton

To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children. — Ernest L. Boyer

Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

The writer has no rights at all except those he forges for himself inside his own work. We have become so flooded with sorry fiction based on unearned liberties, or on the notion that fiction must represent the typical, that in the public mind the deeper kinds of realism are less and less understandable. — Flannery O'Connor

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.) — Jane Jacobs

Once again he's struck by the relative insignificance of words. Until they're draped in gestures, expressions, and inflections, they're worth little, like a Christmas tree without ornaments and lights. The most critical information is conveyed without words, he's come to realize, and all of it eludes Luke. He aches for how much his grandson will never understand. — Nina Navisky

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities. — Alison Moyet

What are memories but photo images from the mind? Isn't the human mind so much like a camera, saving pictures every now and then? — Priyanka Naik

The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors. — Jean-Pierre Alaux