I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them. - John Adams I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth] - Jane Austen I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. - Jane Austen There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not in my nature...The men think us incapable of real friendship, you know, and I am determined to show them the difference. - Jane Austen For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day. - Jane Austen I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. - Theodore Bikel And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain...

Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won't be denied. Nothing daunts them. - Sherrilyn Kenyon I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed. - Eva Longoria

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. - Jane Addams The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable. - Emily Greene Balch Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead. - Evan Bayh Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'. - Albert Camus In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refus...