Quotes About Decision

A man always has two reasons for what he doesa good one, and the real one.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Mr. President, I have blood on my hands.

When you see something technically sweet you go ahead and do it, and you argue about what to do about it, only after you have achieved success.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Damn! I thought, furious that even after expending my only rocket, I couldn't get the machine pistol; I was right back where I started, except one rocket lighter. I had squandered my gift! I felt like the guy who found a lamp that would grant one wish, and he says, "Jeez, I wish I knew what to wish for." I

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Bernard placed one arm tightly round her. When will you marry me Ethel he uttered you must be my wife it has come to that I love you so intensly that if you say no I shall perforce dash my body to the brink of yon muddy river he panted wildly.

Next morning while imbibing his morning tea beneath his pink silken quilt Bernard decided he must marry Ethel with no more delay.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

If I don't get a job, it's Wharton mba. Or teach English in Japan.

The world's repeatedly saved by people whether right or wrong just goddammit not wanting to get into it.

Point is, you can whine about it, or you can give this thing a shot. Either you're in or you're out. Love is love - even if it's only for a little while, that beats never.

So then I had to choose.

All Christianity concentrates on the man at the cross-roads. The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk about ages and evolution and ultimate developments. The true philosophy is concerned with the instant. Will a man take this road or that?

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, AMERICAN POLITICIAN

Caleb shook his head. "No, they

I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.

A decision has been called for. The Nodders sit paralyzed. The Men crouch in their various holes. Tradition and Revolution, having spoken, perch high and unflinching. Fear and Loathing quietly cha-cha down the table's length. A distant referee's whistle.

Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list.

if we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.