In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
Samuel E. Morison

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
B. H. Liddell Hart

Reason is not what decides love.
Moliere

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
Thabo Mbeki

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Voltaire

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The patient decides when it's best to go.
Jack Kevorkian

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
John Ensign

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
Saint Ignatius

Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
Cecilia Bartoli

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
David R. Brower

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Jeanette Rankin

What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy

What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.
Douglas Feith

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble.
Laura Dern

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson