Quotes About Decision

using it as an excuse to delay a decision until she could see whether he was going to be able to handle this sort of power.

Mary and Francis had not even been consulted about its terms

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

less from Henry VIII's aggression than from James V's decision to launch a counterattack

The idea that Mary should marry Charles IX was rejected out of hand by Catherine.

She had done everything possible to prevent Mary's execution until she felt it could no longer be avoided

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

and arranged for her to have her own household, they had run a calculated risk.

But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.

She reviewed her options and decided to return to Scotland. Her mind was made up within a month.

he misjudged the risks. The result was a disintegration of his forces.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

Pope Paul IV refused to declare in her favor

taking stock of the likely consequences of the Guise dynastic project, decided to draw back.

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

I cannot remember whether this was my decision or her command. Maintaining such fogginess about free will is, I think, a secret to a lasting marriage.

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.

Here in St. Cloud's," Dr. Larch wrote, " I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won't be may

WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong.

Even I knew better than to sleep with a ghost. And it was the wrong time for a moral dilemma.