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Quotes About Decision

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.
~ Jodi Picoult
In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.
~ Jodi Picoult
Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.
~ Jodi Picoult
She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.
~ Jodi Picoult
Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.
~ Jodi Picoult
I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.
~ Jodi Picoult
But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.
~ Jodi Picoult
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ? I look away from her. It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.
~ Jodi Picoult
If it's us, she whispered, how come you get to decide? When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all.
~ Jodi Picoult
There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side.
~ Jodi Picoult
Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it
~ Jodi Picoult
What's stronger-the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?
~ Jodi Picoult
After fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling," he says. "It's a choice.
~ Jodi Picoult
It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.
~ Jodi Picoult
And naturally she wanted to believe she would have been a hero, when push came to shove. But you never knew what path you'd take until you got to that crossroads.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.
~ Jodi Picoult
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
~ Jodi Picoult
Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
~ Auliq Ice
This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.
~ Gwenda Bond, Triple Threat
Make a decision to perform something great, something that requires skill, something special for the Kingdom of God.
~ Sunday Adelaja
My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.
~ Maureen Corrigan
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
~ Darius Rucker
As soon as I promised myself that I wouldn't fall for you again, I fell
~ Unknown