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Quotes About Decision

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.
~ David Foster Wallace
There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
~ David Foster Wallace
Can you choose something when you are forcefully and enthusiastically immersed in it at an age when the resources and information necessary for choosing are not yet yours?
~ David Foster Wallace
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos.
~ David Foster Wallace
You Can't Unring a Bell.
~ David Foster Wallace
The bus had a lavatory in the wayback rear, which no one ever made any attempt to use, and I remember consciously deciding to trust that the passengers had good reason for not using it instead of venturing in and discovering that reason for myself.
~ David Foster Wallace
The moment he recognized what exactly was on one cartridge he had a strong anxious feeling that there was something more entertaining on another cartridge and that he was potentially missing it. He realized that he would have plenty of time to enjoy all the cartridges, and realized intellectually that the feeling of deprived panic over missing something made no sense.
~ David Foster Wallace
I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way.
~ David Foster Wallace
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. That is real freedom. That is being educated and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race.
~ David Foster Wallace
It´s all optional. Do it or die.
~ David Foster Wallace
when all the like props and stage-settings that let you just go around smugly assuming you're not a thing are ripped away and broken because all of a sudden now the world understands you as a thing, everybody else thinks you're a rat or a thing and now it's up to you, you're the only one that can decide if you're more.
~ David Foster Wallace
Marathe shrugged. 'Us, we will force nothing on U.S.A. persons in their warm homes. We will make only available. Entertainment. There will be then some choosing, to partake or choose not to.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's all optional; do it or die.
~ David Foster Wallace
Puede ser apropiado hacer algo temible sin pensarlo, pero no cuando lo temible es el propio hecho de no pensar
~ David Foster Wallace
If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
~ William Law
If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.
~ William Law
Qué vamos a hacer? - parece que exclamó Keitel- - ¡Hagan la paz, imbéciles! -le replicó Rundsted-. ¿Qué otra cosa pueden hacer?
~ Unknown
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
have recovered the shock of losing him. It was his counsel had brought about this marriage, and all that was to ensue from it. And why was it?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The best time to stop is now, it always has been and it always will be. You've already thrown away enough of your precious time and life being miserable because of a drug, why would you want to waste another single second on it?
~ Unknown
ednoho záÃ…â"¢ijového dne si uvÄ›domil, že už se definitivne musí rozhodnout. Pro jedno nebo pro druhé. Bu? z?stat a j?šte hloubÄ›ji upadnout do tísnivé ne?innosti a zoufalství, anebo si najít cestu, která vede ke svÄ›tu tam venku...
~ William Saroyan
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
~ William Shakespeare