Quotes About Decision

Papa Don't Preach

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

If you had your time all over again....? She was keen to know. You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind.

I find that a decision to do something leaves me free, while a decision not to do something only leaves me surrounded with undone things and endless, exasperating chances of changing my mind. p.175 from "Giving Money in the Street

Never in my life have I felt more prochoice than when I was pregnant. And never in my life have I understood more thoroughly, and been more excited about, a life that began at conception.

Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

I looked at dozens of apartments and when I entered the hallway of the one I moved into next I knew I could live there because it was cheap and the hallway was baby blue. My friends all told me it smelled as bad there as it did in the last one but I found a heads-up penny on the threshold

The previous day and the day yet to come hang in a balance, each waiting for the other to make a move.

She hadn't ever wanted children and yet she had. She had and she did

Later, and for the rest of her life, she will think that if she had left there and then, if she had gathered her bags, her plants, her honey, and taken the path home, if she had heeded her abrupt, nameless unease, she might have changed what happened next. If she had left her swarming bees to their own devices, their own ends, instead of working to coax them back into their hives, she might have headed off what was coming.

and I took hers, it was as simple as that, but Father said I must never say, that—

The whole thing made Esme want to burst into honesty, to say, let's forget this charade, do you want to marry her or not?

If they say anything other than that they would make a decision, it is fair to push back: "I'm confused. It seems that even if I were to get you what you want, just the way you want it, it would not help you say yes or no. What's missing?

If we think of defeat, that's what we will get. If we are undecided then nothing will happen for us. We must just pick something great to do, and then do it. Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that's what we will get.

If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

They have saddled the horses, They know not why, But they have saddled the horses at the end of the night

He who delays the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out.