Quotes About Decision

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.

He resolved to leave the convent.

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

O silêncio dá sempre um pouco a ideia de que quem cala consente ou de que está entre a espada e a parede.

Sometimes you have to do everything right and follow the rules. You have to wait until all your ducks are in a row before you make a move. And other times... like now... you have to say 'what the hell' and go for it.

wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction.

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. She

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking

Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down was just plain settling.

She knew that she was making a decision she might regret, but it felt inevitable. "Nothing matters except us.

Does one follow a leader blindly?

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Talking about Meghann's painful choice and the lonely years that had followed it wouldn't help. Her past wasn't a collection of memories to be worked through; it was like an oversize Samsonite with a bum wheel.

God makes His choices without us.

Voilà," Rachel said. "Our plan. Should we open a bottle of cognac now, or gin?" "It's ten o'clock in the morning." "You're right. Of course. A French 75.

Up here you can make one mistake. The second one will kill you.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "Yes.