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Quotes About Indecision

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)
~ Jean Racine
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
What does it mean to be in-between? It means one can afford to sit on the fence, decide not to take a stand, to always reserve the privilege - while the battle rages all around - to disengage.
~ Jeff Chang
I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day...I don't really know if I really want to do that. I think I do and then I think I don't. It makes me really nervous to think about really doing it.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
En un mundo de posibilidades tan variadas, la indecision nos puede dejara paralizados
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.
~ Alfred Lansing
I settle on nothing; I decide nothing. This is not a final place. There is no such place.
~ Alice Notley
And, as usual, you don't really know what you want.
~ Alice Notley
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The wavering mind is but a base possession.
~ Euripides
I don't give a whole lot of thought or credence to questions about what comes on next, what goes on next.
~ Joe Kennedy III
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.
~ Richard Nixon
They want to stop but they can't stop. They don't know what they're doing.
~ Richard Siken
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
~ Richard Wright
Yes, but still, if it was as adult and sophisticated as all that, why couldn't she decide what to do with her sweater? Why was she having such an awful time thinking of what in the world she could possibly say to the man?
~ Richard Yates
Meryl Lawrence was in her mid-forties, with sandy hair and the trim, sturdy build of a woman who took care of herself. She wet her lips as she stared at the phone, thinking, and finally glanced up. "What
~ Robert Crais
You're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you much better not.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I knew that whatever I chose would be the wrong thing. I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.
~ Kevin Wilson
She shook the dice in her hands, seemed to reconsider.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
is there anything more dangerous than a god who doesn't know what he wants?
~ Yuval Noah Harari