Quotes About Decision

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.

Put differently: (1) Is removal permissible, (2) Is removal likely to succeed, and (3) Is removal worth the price the nation will pay?

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

One of the two horns of my dilemma.

Now or never was the time.

Anche se non abbiamo modo di decidere dove la strada della vita deve portarci, possiamo stabilire dove poggiare i piedi e cosa guardare lungo il percorso.

Ik had wel duizend levens en ik nam er maar één.

Well, what do you think I should do?" "Button raised a kindly brow. "Dow you want me to tell you if I think you should be wise, or unwise?" "Well... yes." Button smiled sadly. "But which is which?

You'll always be sad about this," Mia said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

I have measured my life with coffee spoons and do I dare to eat a peach?' 'DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?

abortions were an action of last resort, when there was no better option.

You'll always be sad about this, but it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.

A million little chances to change the future. They should never have married. He should never have touched her. She should have turned around, stepped out of his office into the hallway, walked away. He sees with utter clarity: none of this was supposed to happen. A mistake.

This baby name May Ling. Please take this baby and give her a better life. That first night, when the baby had finally fallen asleep in their laps, Mr. and Mrs. McCullough spent two hours flipping through the name dictionary. It had not occurred to them, then or at any point until now, to regret the loss of her old name.

I could have done that, Marilyn thought, and the words clicked into place like puzzle pieces, shocking her with the rightness. The hypothetical past perfect, the tense of miss chances.

The hypothetical past perfect, the tense of missed chances. Tears dripped down her chin. No, she thought suddenly. I could do that.

Later she would wonder if this had made her miss her chance, or if she had ever had a chance at all.

she'd never known. No, she admitted to herself: she'd never chosen to know.

Maybe she didn't know what she was giving up until afterward. Maybe once she saw the baby she changed her mind.

I have friends who've conceived easily, who've struggled to conceive, who've adopted or gone through invasive IVF procedures or used surrogates, or who've decided not to conceive—and the main constant in all of their experiences seems to be judgment.

She knew at last where everything had gone wrong. And she knew where she had to go.