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  • If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

    Depression   Hurt   Cheer  
  • Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

    Acting   Court   Decided  
  • I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  • Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed.

    Sweet   Pain   Eye  
  • I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...

    Thinking   Secret   Want  
  • I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.

  • At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

    Art   Thinking   Years  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

    Nice   Fall   Memorable  
  • I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

    Done   Speak   Crime  
    Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.
  • I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

    "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, Translation by Daphne Woodward, p. 265, 1963.
  • We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.
  • Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

    Jesus   Men   Long Ago  
  • Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.

    Strong   Law   Judging  
    Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 128, 1810.
  • Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.

    Simple   College   Yale  
    "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.
  • I was like 14 and decided I wanted to be a rapper, so I needed a hip rapper name. I was with one of my friends in class and literally went through a thesaurus. I saw "temper" and thought, "I like this, but it's too much." My friend was like, "What about Tinie for tiny," and that was that.

    Rapper   Class   Names  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

  • If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

  • I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

    Three   Radiohead   Beats  
  • The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

    John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.218, 谷月社
  • This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

    Dog   Grief   Home  
  • I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

    Fun   White   Office  
    "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.
  • They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

  • When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

    "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.
  • Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.

    Believe   Law   Race  
  • Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

    Men   Decision   Vigor  
    Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.197
  • Huge Jackman has divorced his wife and happened upon my picture in some old article and decided that I'm the woman for him? ~ Susan

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dark Side Of The Moon”, p.14, Hachette UK
  • According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.

    Letting Go   Dog   Boys  
  • I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things that I would've said "no" to before.

    Said   Decided  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

  • My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.

    "The Truth about Roe v. Wade (according to 'Jane Roe,' Norma McCorvey)" by Norma McCorvey, www.epm.org. March 2, 2000.
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