Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
What you do daily determines what you become permanently
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help,. . . We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other motivations, impossible to label a decision or act ‘sexual’ or ‘non-sexual’. There is no outstripping of sexuality any more than there is sexuality enclosed within itself. No one is saved and no one is totally lost.
If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.
No missionary can determine the lasting effects of his or her labors.
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.
Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
The choices we make, determine our destiny
Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.
The Spirit of God bears no witness to Christless sermons. Leave Jesus out of your preaching, and the Holy Spirit will never come upon you. Why should he? Has he not come on purpose that he may testify of Christ? Did not Jesus say, ‘He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you’? Yes, the subject was Christ, and nothing but Christ, and such is the teaching which the Spirit of God will own. Be it ours never to wander from this central point: may we determine to know nothing among men but Christ and his cross.
Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.
The needs of a society determine its ethics.