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Quotes About Indecision

The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right—and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.
~ Azar Nafisi
On Sunday morning I put on jeans, changed into a denim dress, then back into jeans again, feeling stupid. I can get into a mood where I annoy myself to no end. At the moment when I got completely fed up and stopped caring, I had on jeans and a white cotton shirt and silver earrings, so that's what I wore. And yes, I'll admit it, nice underwear.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The trouble was that with all these options available to me now, I was no longer sure that "regular" jeans were what I wanted. Perhaps the easy fit or the relaxed fit would be more comfortable.
~ Barry Schwartz
He told himself to hurry. Get it done. Indecision was what usually got you. He'd learned that early on from Malone. Be right. Be wrong. Doesn't matter. Just don't hesitate.
~ Steve Berry
A person who does not make a choice makes a choice.
~ Steve Chandler
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
~ Steven Colbert
that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
The woman that deliberates is lost.
~ Joseph Addison
The eighteenth century, which distrusted itself in nothing, as a matter of course, hesitated in nothing.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Taittinger pondered, but he was well aware that no amount of pondering had yet helped him to a sensible conclusion.
~ Joseph Roth
I answer that I cannot answer.
~ Evan Roskos
Ill give you a definite maybe.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
~ Jerry Brown
I didn't want to come to L.A. without a plan. I was already dealing with my own indecision in Atlanta, so I didn't want to pick up and relocate and do the same thing in a different area.
~ Y'lan Noel
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
~ Sylvia Plath
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
~ Oscar Levant
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
~ Beranrd Levin
A compass needle, though it's made of steel, Always trembles before it settles down. Your hand's just looking for its pole, that's all.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Memories haunt. So do fears that you don't know half the things you are supposed to know since your name now sits on the jackets of some books. I had come to books in autodidact fashion, with a handful of workshops tossed in. What course could I teach? What were to be the rules? From what hollow in what bone was I to extract the necessary charm, the more necessary authority? I had no mystique and no defense against my own uncertainty and yet months of indecision melted into yes.
~ Beth Kephart
Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
~ Bill Joy
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
~ Bill Wilson
but, being unable to decide yes, she decided no.
~ Gregory Maguire