Quotes About Decision

So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?

WE'RE the ones who make things happen. and when crappy things happen anyway, WE choose how to respond.

i'm not picking mcdonald's, and i'm not picking chinese. i'm sorry, but i'm picking some place really good, cuz if they're gonna give us bad news, they're gonna have to do it over a super nice meal.

Who knows? Maybe they're right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

But at that moment, Danny decided not to think about it — or anything else

Tell you what," Dr. Gage said. "Why don't you and your dad come along with me tomorrow?

He's asked me to marry him,

It's one thing to call off an engagement or even a wedding once the invitations are out—it's hard, but it happens. But on the actual day? You're walking, sister. Get yourself down that aisle and do whatever you have to do afterward, you know?

Cartagena was to have the final say over all commercial aspects of the expedition;

that he, and not they, had the final say on the conduct of the entire voyage.

Soon after, Ferdinand canceled the expedition, but he sent word to his representatives in the Caribbean

Mesquita spent two weeks assessing the "evidence" of guilt before passing judgment.

mass execution appeared to be in the making, but the expedition could not continue without

By bringing in Haro, the king and his advisers would be giving up a significant amount of the profits.

he gave Molino a brutally simple choice: He could either be executed along with his master

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

Manuel abruptly changed his mind, decided to remain on the throne, and arranged to marry his son's fiancée

Encouraged, the captains and pilots indicated they were strongly in favor of pushing on—all but one, that is.

sparing their lives, they grasped the desperate situation they now faced.

and on whose skill, luck, and good judgment their lives depended.

King Charles followed the advice, and Magellan and Faleiro retained his backing in spite of pressure from Portugual.

You are a free soul and therefore you must choose carefully what you think.