The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling. We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.
I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (. . . ) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.
Success is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.
Today's world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure.
From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.
The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
No matter what responses you get from your work, you have to be determined not to give up on your dreams!
It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.