Quotes About Decision

Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

If you want to worry about something, you ought to worry about how Guadalupe was looking at you. Like she's still making up her mind about you. Guadalupe hasn't decided about you," the clairvoyant child had told him.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

Chlípnost dohání i ty nejlepÅ¡í muže tak daleko, že jednají zp?sobem, naprosto neodpovídajícím jejich charakteru.

Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan.... /These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.' I know you know what that means: you believe in God but I believe in 'Crass Casualty'—in chance, in luck. That's what I mean. You see? What good does it do to make whatever decision you're talking about? What good does courage do—when what happens next is up for grabs?

There was more than a hint of distaste in Roberta's references to homosexuals, and Garp thought it strange that people in the process of making a decision that will plant them firmly in a minority, forever, are possibly less tolerant of other minorities than we might imagine.

One day, Jenny Fields thought, she would like to have a baby – just one.

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He had simply made up his mind to go some time before, and that anyone looking for excuses to leave can always find them.

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.

More than once, during the Sicilian campaign, he put the whole operation at serious risk.

Pope Alexander's most fateful decision was taken in 1493, when he made the all-important adjudication between Spain and Portugal over their recent territorial discoveries in Africa and

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.

I jounced the limb.

When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!

Alright, Colby. How we wanna play this? In through the skylight? Side entrance? Sneak in the back? Are you kidding? Fuck all that shit. Poyo don't sneak.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.