Decided

Famous quotes containing the word decided:

    The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    So I soon made up my mind about the poets too: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped,
    some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and
    I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)