We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
~By Mike Johanns ~
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 ~
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
~By Mary Steenburgen ~
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
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 ~
With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.
~By Roger Mahony ~
Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.
~By Hodding Carter ~
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
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 ~
We know that the decisions we reach will have a profound impact on the communities hosting our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.
~By Anthony Principi ~
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
One right decision doth not a great president make.
~By Herman Cain ~
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
~By Charles Schumer ~
I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
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 ~
They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
~By Vladimir Zhirinovsky ~
I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
~By Denis Norden ~
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
~By Barney Frank ~
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
~By John Searle ~
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
~By Simon Pegg ~
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.
~By Milos Forman ~
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
~By Antony Jay ~
Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
~By Ted Shackelford ~
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
~By Roy E. Disney ~
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
~By Wendell Mayes ~
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
~By Robert Luskin ~
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.
~By Jim Evans ~
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
~By Jay Leno ~
If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
~By Jack Welch ~
And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
~By Jon Porter ~
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
~By Hans Blix ~
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 ~
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
~By George S. Patton ~
Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.
~By John Cale ~
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.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
~By Hugh Sidey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.
~By Simon Cameron ~
I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
~By Chuck Close ~
My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.
~By Josh Lucas ~
That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.
~By Fred Thompson ~
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
~By Dan Abrams ~
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
~By Joseph A. Schumpeter ~
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
~By Peter Bart ~
Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
~By Adam Osborne ~
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
~By Jim Ryun ~
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
~By Anne Tyler ~
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
~By Namie Amuro ~
The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
~By John Paul Stevens ~
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 ~
I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
~By Mike Johanns ~
This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.
~By John Walters ~
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
~By Peter Drucker ~
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
~By David Horowitz ~
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 ~
It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
~By Jena Malone ~
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 ~
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
~By Ed Harris ~
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
~By Mike Rounds ~
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
~By Galeazzo Ciano ~
That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
~By Helen Garner ~
The decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time.
~By Rick Santorum ~
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
~By Ann Veneman ~
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 ~
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
~By Alva Noto ~
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