Quotes About Decision

I'm trying to give you two things here, Douglas: the trip I've always promised you, and the chance you never had before on how you want your life to turn out.

It wasn't just a choice between Earth and the stars because that's a no-brainer. That part was easy. The hard part was that Dad was asking us to choose between him and Mom.

Every baby born is a gamble, but that doesn't stop the human race from making babies, does it?

The inherent flaw with democratic elections is that they peddle the repulsive stink of neither/nor as the sultry perfume of either/or.

Tell the truth,' Nels said. 'Decide to tell the truth before it's too late.

I merely wish to point out that in the face of such a world you have only yourselves to rely on. You have only the decision you must make, each of you, alone. And will you contribute to the indifferent forces that ceaselessly conspire toward injustice? Or will you stand up against this endless tide and in the face of it be truly human?

Is it better for you to have what you have now, this opportunity in another country, or is it better for you to be with the people who will always love you no matter what?

I have learned that we can live with a bad decision, but we are certain to be hurt by no decision.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

The heart wants what it wants -- but sometimes it takes time to figure things out.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

You can choose how you want to live. You are free to choose the actions, but not the results. You are free to have your kicks, but not to avoid the kickbacks. You are free to make choices, but not to avoid the consequences.

People often think there is no way to heal from severe loss. I believe that is not true. You heal when you can remember those who have died with more love than pain, when you find a way to create meaning in your own life in a way that will honor theirs. It requires a decision and a desire to do this, but finding meaning is not extraordinary, it's ordinary. It happens all the time, all over the world.

I know you're drowning. You'll keep sinking for a while, but there will come a point when you'll hit bottom. Then you'll have a decision to make. Do you stay there or push off and start to rise again?

Don't be so sure that what you want is what you should have.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, "Let's have sex," or "Let's go to my place," or even "I really want you," I'm not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

There is no such thing as no choice. There is always a choice. The only question is whether it's a bearable one.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime? Justin smiled Not coffee. But yes. Not Coffee it is, then. Yes, Not Coffee.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.