Decisioning Quotes & Sayings

Haven't you noticed that you tend to understand a person a lot better when you're in direct contact than you do over the phone? Then you make use of the words 'what do you mean?' or a lot less. This is because a great deal of context is lost when you're having a verbal-only conversation, and a lot more is lost when you engage in a text only conversation. We — Jack Steel

The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it's like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then five years later they're back in vogue. Or there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you're back again at the place you were. — Eric Fellner

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. — Brian Greene

An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions. — Jean De La Bruyere

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it. — Tori Amos

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away — Napoleon Bonaparte

They'd been played. By a tuba! — Jude Watson

My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it. — Richard Wright

Chapter 3, The Dark Forest ... The sound of flowing water echoed in the distance and then the path converged upon a creek full of fast, rippling, white water cascading over brown and red colored rocks. Moss dangled across the pathway and swung back and forth as the trespassers moved under the green vegetation. Bright yellow fingers of sunlight attempted to filter through the dense tundra to touch the moist earth until finally, the appendages of light disappeared completely. "Come children, this way," called Mrs. Beetle leading her group over a moldy, moss-laden, wood bridge. — M.K. McDaniel

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. — Conrad Black

Become so very free that your whole existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus

They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw men. But Jordan stood on the outside and knew them each for both monsters and men, the good and the bad bleeding together. They were only villains and heroes in their own stories. — Cassandra Rose Clarke