Quotes About Decision

You can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no

If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. —CHINESE PROVERB

Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.

Where is this going to take me? she had asked. And Caleb's answer: Where do you want it to?

It was like a trapeze act: How could you really tell at what second the acrobat pushed away, at what moment the anchor let go? You couldn't, and that was that. You and your deductions from the outcomeL a successful landing or a spiraling fall.

Since when does anyone get the option to do what's easiest?

Brit had wanted it to say LOVED. Those were the directions she gave me for the granite carver. But at the last minute I changed it. I was never going to stop, so why make it past tense? I

It worked out the way it should have

If I hadn't left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever.

Doesn't it count for anything if Josef wishes he hadn't done it?" Leo looks at me. "What counts," he says, "is that he did."  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Out decisions make us.

Uomini. Non si può vivere senza di loro... e non li si può abbattere legalmente... ... Ho buttato fuori di casa mio marito otto anni fa, e al suo posto ho comprato un lama. La decisione migliore che abbia mai preso.

Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation. But the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a problem.

Nothing in pack behavior suggests that food should be convenient rather than carefully chosen.

If you had the chance, would you change what you did? We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one that really matters. I turn, so that I am staring square at you; so that you know, all my life, anything I've ever said or buried beneath silence was just for you. If I had the chance, I reply. I'd do it all over again.

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

The first time you make a decision like that, a decision which rubs against all your morals, is the hardest. The second time, though, is not so hard. And that makes you feel a fraction better about the first time. And so on. But you can keep dividing and dividing and you'll never entirely get rid of the sourness in your stomach that you taste when you think back to the moment you could have said no.

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found.

Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing." "What's the difference?" "The best thing is what you think should be done. The rightest thing is what needs to be done—when you think not just of you and how you feel, but also the extra stuff—who else is involved, and what's happened before, and what the rules say.

weight. "I'm in," she called back to Reid.

She found out that you could do a lot of editing with three words, if they were yes, no, and shit.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat