Quotes About Decision

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

The dilemma of choosing our identity is an ongoing progress that forces us…to decide consciously or unconsciously the direction in which we will expend our energy.

She turned instead, and went into the house.

When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.

In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision.

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

Marriage: just say no.

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

This is the reality if you take a stand against the government in Iran.' He looked me in the eye. 'Would you take that risk?' It was a difficult question. I liked to think I was the kind of person who would make a stand, but it was easy for me to say, coming from a democratic country with its unarmed policemen and the reassuring notion of habeas corpus enshrined in law. Taking a stand in Iran was a life or death decision.

Many of the passengers were a generation or two older than me, men and women who would remember the pre-revolution era; they had probably supported the overthrow of the Shah at the time. Considering that over ninety-eight per cent of the population had voted for the creation of an Islamic Republic back in 1979, it was highly likely that most of these quiet, tea-drinking folk around me had ticked the YES box in that fateful referendum. I wondered if they regretted that decision now.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.

Where you really have your eggs in one basket and that breach happens and you know you should go but you're still in love and you just don't know what to do. It hits you because it's not like -- you're a cheater, and a liar, and I hate you, and you're no good, and I'm leaving. It's not that. It's like, I'm tormented. Even though you've done this and I know it, I still don't know what to do. I know I should go, but I don't want to. And that's why it's such a f***ed-up thing.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

What am I going to do with you? I have suggestions, but this might not be the place for them.

Oh, what grief not to have grief, and to spend your life on the colorless grass of the undecided path!