Quotes About Indecision

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time.

I don't know. I don't want to sell him. All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

I'm twenty years old and look at me-- there isn't a thing I want to do

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me for ever. Maybe

Por el momento, con la idea tenía suficiente. Era indestructible. Hacerla realidad... Bueno, eso ya era otro cantar.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

sure of anything right now. I'm just very tired.

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather

You wouldn't have any idea what's going on, would you? BAYARD, shaking his head: I was walking down the street. LEBEAU: Me too. Something told me—Don't go outside today. So I went out. Weeks go by and I don't open my door. Today I go out. And I had no reason, I wasn't even going anywhere. Looks left and right to the others. To Bayard: They get picked up the same way?

Everyone understands, though, that a great deal of uncertainty about what to do for people will always remain.

there's always something. We want these choices. But that doesn't mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this? There

There just didn't seem to be anything to hold on to. We weren't going anywhere, and we weren't pulling away. We were just floating, suspended in liquid. And I guess I want more. And I don't know what he wants.

It was time to leave. He was insufferable, had toilet problems, looked demented to begin with, and now he was the accomplice to a cat killer. Yet did I leave? No, I sat there. And I thought, What has happened to me? Why am I not rising up off the sofa? Why am I not leaving?

If our actions in the world are to stem from an encounter with what is central in life, they must be unclouded by either dogma or prevarication. Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl, her father had told her once. Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing... or ye can decide not to decide. That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.

Being ninety-five percent sure isn't a hundred.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

We're making decisions right now that shape our lives. Even indecision is a decision. What's going on today is a result of the choices we've made in the past.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

In my experience, it's not the people who drive fast that are the problem. It's the ones who drive as if they're terrified of every little thing in front of them. Indecision and cowardice kill more often than not.

Can you define 'plan' as a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance? If so, then it was a very good plan.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

Seguir o no seguir (o quién sabe si en realidad seguir y no seguir): tal podría ser la cuestión que rodea a Bartleby.

There were too many Cream and Traffic fans around for that, and the truth is we didn't really know or care which we were. Looking back, I realize that from the start I knew that this was not what I really wanted to do, but I was lazy. Instead of putting more time and effort into making the band into what I thought it ought to be, I opted instead for the laid-back approach, which was just to look for something else that already had an identity.