Determined Quotes - Page 9

• I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  Ian Mcewan

  Novel, Turns

  "Ian McEwan: 'It's good to get your hands dirty a bit'". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dad, Men, Wife

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• Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Technology, Wind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Childhood, Challenges, Made

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• I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Mind, Stopping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Age, Gold

  1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1,'The Beauty Myth'.

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• So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up Fifth Avenue once a year... a Cuban parade or a Puerto Rican parade - many other countries. So they really don't forget.

  Tom Wolfe

  Loyalty, Country, Years

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• Everybody is determined by his own experience.

  Andrew Young

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• when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Men, Findings

  '1 x 1' (1944) no. 26

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• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Real, Past

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1816, Best Books on

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• We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Boys, Opportunity, Garden

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• And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, World, Qualified

  Tom Wolfe (1982). “The Purple Decades: A Reader”, p.228, Macmillan

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• I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.

  Charlaine Harris

  Car, Buyers, Drivers

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.866, Penguin

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• It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away.

  William P. Young

  Real, Fall, Simple

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• Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

  Jodi Picoult

  Darkness, Window, Turns

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.658, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Yankees, Helping

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• Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

  Rick Warren

  Things In Life, Valuable, Values

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined. But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black.

  Claudia Gray

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Evernight (Evernight, Book 1)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I have often thought about the matter since, but I have never succeeded in arriving at any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon. Possibly the result may have been brought about by the natural obstinacy of all things in this world. The boat may possibly have come to the conclusion, judging from a cursory view of our behaviour, that we had come out for a morning's suicide, and had thereupon determined to disappoint us. That is the only suggestion I can offer.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Suicide, Morning, Views

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.135, Oxford University Press

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• I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

  John Adams

  Events, Virtue, Humankind

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

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• Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Greatness

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• She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sweet, Giving, Mad

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

  Michael Crichton

  Teaching, Animal, Dna

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Our World, Together

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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