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Quotes About Indecision

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
~ Joseph Addison
Then I walked down the street toward Angel's Flight, wondering what I would do that day. But there was nothing to do, and so I decided to walk around the town.
~ John Fante
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.
~ John Flanagan
I don't know. I don't know. And . . . I don't know
~ John Flanagan
While between two stools my tail go to the ground.
~ John Heywood
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Through the window the stones of the graveyard stood out beyond the laurels in the moon, all the dead about, lives as much filled with themselves and their importance once as you this night, indecision and trouble and yearning put down equal with laughing into that area of clay, and they lay calm as you would one eternal night while someone full of problems and uncertainties would lie as awake as you in a room.
~ John McGahern
but she wasn't sure where. The knee?
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Flight or fight? What kind of pathetically damaged animal decides on...neither?
~ Elisa Albert
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
~ Elizabeth Bibesco
Did Anna also, sometimes not know what to do next? Because she knew what to do next, because she knew what to laugh at, what to say, did it always follow that she knew where to turn? Inside everyone, is there an anxious person who stands to hesitate in an empty room?
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Slip me a piece of paper with 'Yes or No' on it, and I'll be the one to circle 'or' as my answer.
~ Aurora
She didn't need anyone to tell her he was all wrong for her and yet…
~ B.J. Daniels
It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.
~ Hugh Grant
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
~ Jonathan Coe
I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can I get it?' And she'll say, 'Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.'
~ Margaret Qualley
He could not at first leave the fire.
~ Gary Paulsen
I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
~ George Eliot
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.
~ George Eliot
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
~ George Eliot
Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?
~ Tom Berenger
When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.
~ Jamie Bamber
I'm wondering if I made the right decision about hair and makeup.
~ Ree Drummond