Quotes About Decision

So if he dies during the jump, it'll be my fault," Wilson said. "If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him

I'm not a good man, Mark," Holloway said. "But I was the right man. And for this, that was enough.

So you would have me take the job simply to avoid something worse.

I'm going to shoot him twice now. We still need to bring him in alive, I said. I didn't say I was going to kill him, Powell replied. Just that I was going to shoot him twice.

It was the black jellybeans that did it.

I'm trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you're thirty." "I don't think it matters what age you are when you figure it out," Brous said. "I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.

Let's still not ever do this again, Wilson said to himself. Agreed, himself said back.

It's an illusion to think that a choice is open to us, unless we are open to that choice.

You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.

To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.

And the girl,' Lanser continued, 'the girl, Lieutenant, you may rape her, or protect her, or marry her--that is of no importance so long as you shoot her when it is ordered.

I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!

Will you stay to dinner? Adam asked. I will not be responsible for the murder of more chickens, said Samuel. Lee's got a pot roast. Well, in that case--

But us, we got a job to do, and there's a thousand ways, and we don't know which one to take. And if I was to pray, it'd be for the folks that don't know which way to turn.

Well, suppose there's a slight doubt that the boy should be in the army and we send him and he gets killed." "I see. Is it responsibility or blame that bothers you?" "I don't want blame." "Sometimes responsibility is worse. It doesn't carry any pleasant egotism.