Quotes About Indecision

implying that we had not yet made up our minds whether to end our tightening campaign or to raise rates.

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

I hung around New York and did a little stock-company stuff. I wasn't really sure at that time if I even wanted to be an actor. I got no encouragement.

I pushed a foot out from under my sheets, but couldn't bring myself to connect it to the floor.

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

Until the age of thirteen, I tortured the waiting worlds of book illustration and professional football by shilly-shallying over which of them was going to get the benefit of my inestimable talents.

I can't even plan tomorrow.

Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

I'm not sure what there is to say. Everything? Or nothing.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

3 o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

Though perhaps I would be unable then either to agree or to disagree. I would be dead.

She was engulfed by mingled panic and indecision, and by a terrible depression. She would never see him again. He would come riding out of the stable in a moment and disappear down the driveway, and she would never see him again. Ever.

What was she to do? There seemed to be precious little she could do. She turned back to the ballroom in some dread.

Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]

way." The giant scratched his head and looked doubtful.

I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.

Sometimes when I had planned the next morning for my escape a word of more than usual affection from her lips made me postpone my resolution. I reproached myself bitterly for what I called a culpable weakness; but this weakness returned upon me whenever the critical moment approached, and I never found courage to depart.

Fine," he said. "Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.