Quotes About Decision

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.

We can only bring changes by taking a position, and by our actions

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

Delay always breeds danger.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

What the government will or will not do is finally beside the point. If people do not have the government they want, then they will have a government that they must either change or endure. Finally

After more darkness and silence, I said, "Well, do you believe in the informed decision?" More darkness and silence. "No!" I envy his certainty! He understood that a determined life had its limits. "I had a wonderful life and I had nothing to do with it"—well, now I can say that, too. There is this sense of being on your own path.

If I could have found in my mind a plain and simple way to be right, that would have been something. I would have been changed in another way, and my life ever afterward would have been different. But having reached the crisis—the crossroad, so to speak—I failed. I didn't have at all the feeling of being right.

His life has never rested on anything he has known beforehand — none of it. He chose it before he knew it, and again afterwards.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

I could convince future storytellers, Father, that what guided you was the desire for beauty and greatness, a thirst for the absolute. It doesn't really matter where it leads us; we all decide what we want to keep in our bag, rags or riches. The truth is not always pretty or merciful. •