Quotes About Decisive

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Zhukov was stunned. Unlikely as it might seem, most of the Leningrad tank force was made up of motionless decoys, nailed together by Shostakovich's colleagues in the set-design team at the Mariinsky Theater.

Throughout history, demagogues have often outperformed democrats in generating popular fervor, and it is almost always because they are perceived to be more decisive and sure in their judgements.

What are a country's strengths, and where is it vulnerable? Is its political system controlled from the top or driven by pressures from below? Are neighbors friendly or hostile? What is the nation's self-image? Are the people in charge decisive and visionary, or insecure and unable to see beyond the present?

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

Despite the fact that the alt-right was not dominant in the broadest popular movement that formed around Trump, some of its leaders did play a decisive role in the ideology and politics of Trumpism, thanks to their direct influence on Trump himself.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

The most decisive actions of our lives are often unconsidered actions.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.

It's no time to be wobbly, Geo.

We are all proud of is World War II where we went in, we were decisive, we came to the conclusion that freedom prevailed, and we were heroes.

porque en este tipo de relación superficial se habla de muchas cosas, pero nunca de las vitales, nunca de las verdaderamente importantes y decisivas.

tall, gangly boy stumbled through a swinging door with a burlap cloth in his arms, the tail of a fish wagging out the end. "Loafhead! Where's my cod? I'm to make stew with a crappie?" She grabbed the fish from him anyway, slapped it down on the butcher block, and with one decisive chop, whacked its head off with a cleaver. I guessed the crappie would do. So

Each one of us has his shining hour in the events of his century. On one occasion it may be Monseigneur of Kent, on another Monseigneur of Lancaster, some other on a previous occasion and yet another on a later, whom the event illumines because of the decisive part he plays in it. Thus is made the history of the world.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

I wouldn't say that I'm bossy. I just always know what to do before anyone else does and I do not keep the information to myself.

Devaluar el pasado y el presente en beneficio del futuro, devaluar lo real para preferir una virtualidad situada en un futuro incierto, son síntomas del nihilismo europeo mucho más decisivos que todo los que Nietzsche pudo detectar;

Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).

So decisive", he murmured in that calm tone that had adrenaline flooding her body, the primitive part of her brain conscious she was in the presence of a predator. "Got your eye on someone?" She didn't know what made her say it. "No. But I have no plans to die a virgin.

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.