Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.
War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names
There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.
You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.
When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate acts of alienation.
It was a deliberate policy not to invite Hello!' into my home. I could have done that stuff and made a lot of money, but I've never regretted not doing it.
I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.
If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.
Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.
We're really talking about the Army and Marine Corps here for almost all these ground combat jobs. They want to move in a careful, deliberate manner.
Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.
The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.
I firmly believe we have the power to transform our communities with intentional and deliberate policies that encourage the overall health and the well-being of those who have the least.
I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
I've just been trying to improve - it's a not a deliberate thing to focus on one thing.
It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.
My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.
I wanted to experiment with more deliberate combat but I never wanted to lose that DNA of what 'God of War' is.
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
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