Quotes About Decision

You'll stay, won't you? Maddy asked Pilar. Yes, if you want. I think you should stay. Since Theo had grabbed the bags, she clomped off after him in her funky new shoes.

Nothing better illustrated the realities of the Soviet collapse than the fate of Sergei Krikalyev, a Soviet cosmonaut who was fired into space in May 1991. He was still circling the earth at the end of the year for want of a decision to bring him back. He had left a Soviet Union that was still a superpower; he would return to a world from which the Soviet Union had disappeared. His controllers at the Baikonur Space Centre found themselves in the independent republic of Kazakhstan.

It is true that God desires all men to be saved (2 Peter 3-9), but that they have to choose to love him and believe in him. Now God can't force anyone to love him. Forced love is a contradiction in terms.

Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.

Neither can we deny that free will (the power of free choice) is a good thing.

Belief requires assent not only of the mind but also of the will.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing

Should she stick with the nice, sensitive guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawk)? Winona made the kind of romantic decision most people my age would have made in 1994: She pursued a path that was difficult and depressing, and she did so because it showed the slightest potential for transcendence.

When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.

If I were an adult, I would be drinking coffee; as it is, I'm drinking Mountain Dew.

I have always tried to live by a simple principle: if I am sober enough to drive, I am too sober to dance.

Don't confuse disbelief and doubt. Doubt is healthy inquiry. Disbelief is a willful choice.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.