#dec

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. ↗

— Kitty Kelley

#crawl #decide #i #jump #me

You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#get #going #hard #look #point

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#benefit #deceived #endeavor #get #knowledge

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#capital #capital gains #decisions #difficulty #directly

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him! ↗

— George Kennedy

#am #anyway #argue #been #brilliant

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#clever #composed #enough #half #idiots

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#decency #fight #his #howl #i

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#food

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#agree #because #care #consistent #decent