To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment? ~By John Paul Stevens ~
I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ~By Joshua Lederberg ~
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. ~By Thor Heyerdahl ~
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. ~By Luis Figo ~
Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision. ~By Michael Chertoff ~
I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision. ~By Cicely Tyson ~
You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state. ~By Dave Heineman ~
Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. ~By Helen Wills Moody ~
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. ~By Mark Warner ~
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism. ~By John Amery ~
I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine. ~By Jacques Verges ~
It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. ~By Patricia Richardson ~
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. ~By Bijou Phillips ~
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. ~By Kathleen Turner ~
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ~By Denis Waitley ~
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ~By William James ~
At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children. ~By Mark Kennedy ~
Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003. ~By Laurent Jalabert ~
At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be. ~By Dick Murphy ~
What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this. ~By Graham Nelson ~
They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline. ~By Kelly Preston ~
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence. ~By Alva Noto ~
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever. ~By Kazuo Ishiguro ~
The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans. ~By Tabare Vazquez ~
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. ~By Judd Nelson ~
In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. ~By Bobby Scott ~
The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. ~By Mitch Kapor ~
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ~By Amelia Earhart ~
I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. ~By J Allard ~
We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation. ~By Jodi Rell ~
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision. ~By Chris Cooper ~
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. ~By Howard Staunton ~
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant. ~By Henri Queuille ~
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. ~By Tim McGraw ~
The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this. ~By Helen Wills Moody ~
The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that. ~By Jerry West ~
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ~By David Attenborough ~
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions. ~By Ronald Fisher ~
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ~By John Conyers ~
Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions. ~By Lara St. John ~
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ~By Peter Drucker ~
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore. ~By Garry Kasparov ~
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. ~By Barney Frank ~
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. ~By Ennio Morricone ~
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. ~By John Yoo ~
Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make. ~By John McKinley ~
I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life. ~By Mario Lemieux ~
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. ~By Robin Cook ~
Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow. ~By Corliss Lamont ~
In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time. ~By Lisa Guerrero ~
I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here. ~By Zoe Lofgren ~
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. ~By Edwin Meese ~
When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. ~By Roland Allen ~
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them. ~By David Herbert Donald ~
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. ~By Phil McGraw ~
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision. ~By Scott Cook ~
No more waking up at noon, updating FC for an hour, and spending the rest of the day cashing FC checks and watching porn? It was a hard decision, but, like, I'm a man now. ~By Philip J. Kaplan ~
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ~By David Korten ~
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ~By George J. Mitchell ~
I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet! ~By Julian Lennon ~
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information. ~By John Erskine ~
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education. ~By Ken Mehlman ~
With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers. ~By Richard Ben Veniste ~
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. ~By John Engler ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~By Roy E. Disney ~
I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human. ~By Bruce Greenwood ~
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. ~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win. ~By Maxine Waters ~
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. ~By Herman Kahn ~
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement. ~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. ~By Bill Forsyth ~
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. ~By Isabelle Huppert ~
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box. ~By Bobby Charlton ~
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen. ~By Tony Goldwyn ~
I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married. ~By Seth Green ~
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. ~By Mike DeWine ~
On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists. ~By Rudy Giuliani ~
See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ~By Damien Hirst ~
The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams. ~By Ed Markey ~
I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make. ~By Guido van Rossum ~
I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater. ~By Trevor Nunn ~
We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent. ~By Craig Stevens ~
By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. ~By Donald Cram ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. ~By Merton Miller ~
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ~By Maimonides ~
This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue. ~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made. ~By Simon Pegg ~
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil. ~By Armstrong Williams ~
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ~By Bernhard von Bulow ~
Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision. ~By Jim Bunning ~
Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented. ~By Harold S. Geneen ~
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders. ~By David Knopfler ~
I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level. ~By Matt Cameron ~
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need. ~By Jim Walton ~
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision. ~By Jeanette Rankin ~
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