Quotes About Decision

The man who draws first sparks an unconscious response from a trained opponent, who tends to draw more smoothly and with greater speed. It is counter-intuitive, but as Japanese kendo fighters will affirm, the instinctive reaction after thousands of hours of training is often faster than a blow resulting from a controlled decision. On

A man could waste his life worrying, that was all too clear. Sometimes you simply had to choose and shrug, however it came out, knowing that you could not have done more with the bones you were given.

A man must always have the possibility of a final choice between life and death. You can take him all the rest, but that never.

Life has ways to turn and curve in a way you don't expect. But, I wouldn't want to be different, no matter the suffering it brings. Too many futures have already been decided; it's good we can't now every detail because life would have been grey and it would turn in a boring kind of death

A veces solo tenemos una oportunidad, solo tenemos un segundo para decidir el curso de nuestra vida.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. —Tehyi Hsieh

I know I will have to do the right thing and return her to her father, but it is ripping my heart apart.

The very old lady in black looked up at a notice over the window: TO STOP THE TRAIN PULL DOWN THE CHAIN PENALTY FOR IMPROPER USE, FIVE POUNDS. She smiled the gentlest, sweetest smile. "All my life I have been afraid that one day the temptation would prove too much for me," she said. "Don't suppose there's anyone who doesn't feel like that, ma'am," said the soldier, grinning.

every act of man would from the very first have to be a moral act, an act of choice for or against God. Hence man would even in every act of knowledge manifest true righteousness and true holiness.

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

What did he make of the news that President Wilson was sending American troops to France?

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

There was just one problem. I had no idea how to do that. Okay, two problems. I'm also not sure I want to.

Whether you end up in heaven or hell, it's not God's plan it's your own.

But when two "Spirit-instructed interpreters" argue for mutually exclusive positions, a problem arises. Who brings the correct message taught by the Spirit, and how do we decide? We would argue that this question emphasizes the Spirit's teaching work at the wrong place, by stressing understanding of content.

If Miss Havisham had gone with that sassy taffeta number instead, hey, who knows, maybe it would've been all peaches and cream.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

between safety and adventure I choose adventure

The Muslim, the modernist, and the Christian each believes that his or her story alone is the true story of the world, that the Enlightenment story of human progress, or the Koran, or the Bible will ultimately be acknowledged by all to be true. But note that these stories cannot coexist as uniquely true. We must choose.

Who do we believe in more? Ourselves or God? Our actions and decisions will reflect that.

The right choice was the more difficult one. Way more difficult. But as Jesus followers, we know it's best to choose hard over easy when hard is right.