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Quotes About Decision

I can be sure that even in this tiny, insignificant episode there is implicit everything I have ever experienced, all the past, the multiple past I have tried in vain to leave behind me, the lives that in the end are soldered into an overall life, which continues even in this place from which I have decided I must not move…
~ Italo Calvino
Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò. - Non cambierò mai idea, - fece mio fratello, dal ramo. - Ti farò vedere io, appena scendi! - - E io non scenderò più! - E mantenne la parola.
~ Italo Calvino
rivelandosi uno di quegli incerti impulsivi o impulsivi incerti che sembra sempre non sappiano cogliere il momento giusto e invece l'azzeccano ogni volta.
~ Italo Calvino
where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,
~ Italo Calvino
Essa subito decise, perché afferrò la mia mano per trattenermi più sicuramente e mi fece entrare. L'emozione m'oscurò la vista e ritengo sia stata provocata non tanto dal dolce contatto di quella mano, ma da quella familiarità che mi parve decidesse del mio e del destino di Augusta. Perciò credo di essere entrato con qualche riluttanza e, quando rievoco la storia del mio primo tradimento, ho il sentimento di averlo compiuto perché trascinatovi.
~ Italo Svevo
First I had to meet her, and see if she would be game.
~ Unknown
Our husbands decide without asking our consent, or having our concurrence; for, to tell you the truth, I hate this boat, though I say nothing." Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, talking about the boat that Shelley and his friend Williams bought.
~ Unknown
Our husbands decide without asking our consent, or having our concurrence; for, to tell you the truth, I hate this boat, though I say nothing." Mary Shelley to Jane Williams, talking the boat that Shelley and his friend Williams bought.
~ Unknown
choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
~ J. C. Watts
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
~ J. D. Salinger
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
~ J. K. Galbraith
We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
~ J. K. Rowling
We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
~ J. K. Rowling
until one is committed there is hesitancy
~ J. Mark G. Williams
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
~ J. Martin Kohe
The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.
~ J. Martin Kohe
It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Leaders take lessons from the past, but never sacrifice the future for the sake of mere continuity. People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
A discretionary hour can be wisely invested or foolishly wasted. Each
~ J. Oswald Sanders
A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
~ J. P. Morgan