Quotes About Decision

De sorte que é um erro falar em má escolha de amor, pois, desde que há escolha, só pode ser má.

Uma renúncia não é sempre total desde o princípio, quando a decidimos com a nossa alma antiga e antes de que, em reação, tenha ela agido sobre nós, quer se trate da renúncia de um doente, de um monge, de um artista, de um herói.

I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?

É sempre devido a um estado de espírito não destinado a durar que se tomam resoluções definitivas.

Let him alone!" my father protested; "the main thing is that a man should find pleasure in his work. He is no longer a child. He knows pretty well now what he likes, it is not at all probable that he will change, and he is quite capable of deciding for himself what will make him happy in life.

Acontece que os diversos períodos da nossa vida vêm assim cruzar-se uns com os outros. Por causa de uma coisa que queremos hoje e amanhã nos será indiferente, negamo-nos a ver outra coisa que agora nada nos diz, mas que haveremos de querer mais adiante, e que, se houvéssemos consentido em vê-la, talvez tivéssemos desejado antes, abreviando assim as nossas dores atuais, se bem que na verdade para substituí-las por outras.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chooses the person one loves after endless deliberation and on the strength of diverse qualities and advantages.

Why the hell did I have them if I didn't use them? It makes no sense to wait for the right moment because it never arrives. That moment doesn't exist.

Uno de nuestros pecados cardinales son las cosas que casi hacemos, las palabras que casi decimos, el amor que casi damos. ¿Por qué esperamos hasta que es demasiado tarde?

In a decision I dreaded but expected, five Catholic, male Justices held that RFRA trumped any rights the women might have and ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby.

CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?

I wish that one of us had been endowed with some mystical gift of prescience that would have warned us off this train wreck. But you make your decision with the best information you have at the time.

La felicidad es una elección

Sharing Godzilla with the rest of the second grade wasn't the best part about Mr. Morris's plan, but it was better than what Margaret had in mind. She wanted to cook Godzilla for dinner. I didn't like Mom and Dad's idea of taking Godzilla back to The Wagging Tail Pet Store, either. So when Mr. Morris said Godzilla could be a class pet, I decided it was the best idea of all. I did the responsible thing. Now Godzilla lives in Mr. Morris's classroom.

Ama o sálvate: elige.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

I looked Mikey right in the eye, and I said, "We gotta let 'em go." It was the stupidest, most southern-fried, lamebrained decision I ever made in my life. I must have been out of my mind. I had actually cast a vote which I knew could sign our death warrant. I'd turned into a fucking liberal, a half-assed, no-logic nitwit, all heart, no brain, and the judgment of a jackrabbit.

I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Look at a chessboard. Even the most elegant of wins required sacrifice.

You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.

But there was no pressing CTRL+Z on a day, no loading a previous copy.

Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.