Quotes About Decisions

It's not about being able to do something, Rocco. It's not even about thinking about doing it. It's not even about being tempted to go too far. [...] It's about deciding not to do it. It's about being tempted but not giving in. It isn't our abilities that make us evil, Sergeant, it's giving in to them.

Only death was final, and without hope; short of that, there were options.

There were plenty of great guys out there, and there was no need to get stuck on a jerk. Even if he was adorable and seemed perfectly sweet and genuine. Emily

It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.

and wondered how much power and how much wisdom it would take to do right by more than one person at a time. A

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Those are moments of grace. Uncertainty is removed. Mind, heart, and body fuse together, and decisions are made without pause for reflection.

philately is far and away the area of my life where I spend the most time and effort making genuinely inconsequential decisions.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Crap, make one, two really bad decisions in your life, and you spend the rest of it doubting everything.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too modestly about yourself. Everything you do is destined to be of historic significance. One day, your letters, your decisions, will belong to all mankind, like those of Wagner and Brahms.

All certainty that comes after the 'original sin' of dismantling the matter-of-fact world full of routine and short of reflection must be a manufactured certainty, a blatantly and unashamedly 'made-up' certainty, burdened with all the inborn vulnerability of human-made decisions.

It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.

He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ehe who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

T]he candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically re-signed their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2