Johnson: Dryden

"The power that predominated in his intellectual operations was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions, as they spring separate in the mind, he seems not much acquainted; and seldom describes them but as they are complicated by the various relations of society, and confused in the tumults and agitations of life."

Malcolm Gladwell

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

Peter Yarrow

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Jo Bonner

There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

Julia Ward Howe

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

Niklaus Wirth

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Jonathan Kellerman

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

Andrew Jackson

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

A. B. Yehoshua

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Samuel Johnson

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Horace

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Ambrose Bierce

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Charles de Gaulle

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Jesse Jackso

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Jim Gerlach

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.