Quotes About Decision

I came into some family money and I've always been a good saver. I realized that being by myself was detrimental to my health and I needed interaction. So I decided to stop being careful and start spending that money. I figure if I can't be good to myself now, when can I?

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.

To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.

The preference that seems to have the most influence on occupational choice, the SN preference, determines in large part what will interest people. Sensing

In order to come to a conclusion, people use the judging attitude and have to shut off perception for the time being.

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

The mere existence of alternatives is not . . . enough to make my action free.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.

I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question?

Be slow in deliberation, but be prompt to carry out your resolves

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

Man is a moving being. If he does not move to what is good, he will surely move to that what is not. If this consciousness does not arise here, another consciousness will arise there. Man's mind goes through multifarious changes and never stops.

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing.

again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.

I must, however, bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events provokes a rain of new events, which complicate the situation worse than before and which I will then, in their turn, have to try to erase.

Jego [cesarza] zadanie to prowadzi? t? wojn?, która w danej chwili si? toczy, i co najwy?ej pomy?le? jeszcze o nast?pnej.

Perché ogni scelta ha un rovescio cioè una rinuncia, e così non c'è differenza tra l'atto di scegliere e l'atto di rinunciare.