Quotes About Decisive

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Russia made a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazism. That's clear to every honest observer. So, therefore, in a certain manner, it is indeed part of the country's national psyche.

Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Moving before I think is my specialty," I said.

we should never hesitate to take a decisive position regarding the nature and fate of a type of person, a belief, or an action that the Bible has addressed.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing, Myrnin said. I think I might like it.

Even motionless, she was decisive.

My marriage to Jamie had been for me like the turning of a great key, each small turn setting in the intricate fall of tumblers within me. Bree had been able to turn that key as well, edging closer to the unlocking of the door of myself. But the final turn of the lock was frozen--until I had walked into the print shop in Edinburgh, and the mechanism had sprung free with a final, decisive click.

The universe had shifted, with a small, decisive click; he could still hear its echo in his bones.

You either make history or you don't.

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things.

Lenin's distinction is decisive. A propagandist, he says, to explain unemployment must talk about the capitalist nature of the crisis, the need for building a socialist society, etc.

India and the United States have taken a decisive step, away from the past. The dawn of the new century has marked a new beginning in our relations. Let us work to fulfil this promise and the hope of today. Let us remove the shadow of agitation that lies between us and our joint vision.

It's not automatic to have a successful friendship in marriage; it's decisive and intentional.

How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life.

Rescuers tended to be decisive, fast-thinking, risk-taking, independent, adventurous, openhearted, rebellious, and unusually flexible—able to switch plans, abandon habits, or change ingrained routines at a moment's notice. They tended to be nonconformists, and though many rescuers held solemn principles worth dying for, they didn't regard themselves as heroic.

Striking in its insistence and durability is the quest or desire for a decisive criterion with which to differentiate humans from other animals as well as the human from the animal in human beings.