#dec

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#book #close #decades #decay #exploration

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#decisions #many #now #opportunities #time

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is. ↗

— James McGreevey

#deeply #every #hope #into #life

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#becoming #borrowing #decided #foreign #foreign policy

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing. ↗

— Edwin Meese

#appeal #astonishing #could #decision #everyone

I just go at my own pace and I like control of the TV and I like to decide when I take a shower and wash the dishes and stuff like that. So I don't know who would want to live with me to be honest! ↗

— Leighton Meester

#decide #dishes #go #honest #i

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#access #american #american century #american dream #because

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#believe #believes #between #by the people #country