Determinated Quotes & Sayings

I can't believe you gave me a bag of dirt and then broke up with me! — Lauren R. Weinstein

And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are. — Seymour Hersh

Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it. — Elf Sternberg

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. — Washington Irving

Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen. — Chris Pronger

I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination. — Charlie Lovett

You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I had. Escape has been the motivating force in my life. Getting away from him, getting away from her, putting that household behind me. The funny this is, I haven't moved an inch, and the harder I run, the faster I keep slipping back to them ... There are laws for everything except the harm families do. — Sue Grafton

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared. — Ed O'Brien

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come. — Charles Caleb Colton

I was so bummed when it got lost," I said. "Oh, it didn't get lost," he answered casually. "I threw it out. — R.J. Palacio

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency. — Khaled Hosseini

I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies. — Patrick Rothfuss

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. — Paul Cezanne

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler