Quotes About Decision

Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy, either.

I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.

But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

Existen infinidad de maneras de forzarte a tomar una decisión. Todo el tiempo hacemos eso: tomar decisiones. Si pensáramos cada vez que tomamos una decisión, nos quedaríamos paralizados. Que palabras deberíamos decir. Hacia donde girar. Que mirar. Que número marcar. Uno tiene que tomar aquellas decisiones que considera importantes y dejar a un lado el resto. Son aquellas ocasiones en las que uno piensa que una de esas opciones podría arruinarlo todo.

I think we should get married here, I say. It's so obvious. Naomi sits down on the top stair, the edge of our corner, and rests her head against the wall. Ely, she says, we're never getting married. Never.

Is it PG-13 time?

What was there to stop him from choosing some completely different life, after all? Nothing but the fact that he'd never wanted a different life.

End justifies the means

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

There's the past, which we might wish desperately that we can change, and there's now. If we don't seize the now with all our might, it becomes just another part of the past that we end up wishing we could change.

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.

death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike

Everything now depends on mutual trust, Addison Goodheart. Sit down or go. There can be no third choice.

Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two.

To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.

Scourges assumed authority they had not been granted. They made a carefully reasoned decision to kill in greater numbers than were absolutely necessary to save themselves and the innocents who needed their protection. Scourges transgressed against social and sacred order... Scourges themselves are always scourged.

This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on sighs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.

The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone.

The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does.