Quotes About Decision

Heck, everything we decide will be wrong, said Step, because no matter what we do, something bad will happen later. So I refuse to regret any of it.

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

Now she understood that someone had to end the council by declaring specifically what had been decided and what must happen next. Without absolute clarity, people would go off and dither, especially if they had doubts about the decision.

We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time. Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees — knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.

The PCs were willing, but the powers that be didn't want to commit troops.

Why were they still on that planet? Why weren't they in ships, speeding away? They chose to stay, knowing we had that weapon, knowing what it did and how it worked, they stayed for the battle, they waited for us to come.

There's a longer view, in which life and death are less important matters than choosing what kind of life and what kind of death we have.

hatch. I wouldn't risk another high-speed dock if we don't have to.

And because it was possible, there was a part of him that wanted to play it out, see where this path led. I

Orson Scott Card

Better come with me before your eyes make promises your stomach can't keep.

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

Perhaps that was why she was sure she had to go to Vigor Church and on to where Alvin was. Because fear told her to stay, but hope told her to go.

We all act because we're sure of what we want, and we believe that the actions we perform will get us what we want, but we never know anything for sure, and so all our rationales are invented to justify what we were going to do anyway before we thought of any reasons.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

Get your hat, he said. - You wish me to come? - Yes, if you have nothing better to do.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.