Deliberate

Famous quotes containing the word deliberate:

    “Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “A slight digression: that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie. In reality, she was a woman of the people, simple and coarse, sordidly dressed in a kind of blouse hanging loose at the waist. I could, of course, have crossed it out, but I purposely leave it there as a sample of one of my essential traits: my light-hearted, inspired lying.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “the slow passion
    to that deliberate progress.”
    —Thom Gunn (b. 1929)