Quotes About Decision

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

It was the right thing to do, but it could not be sustained. Not here. The

Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that." Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.

His decision to go west was not rash or forced, but as fully deliberate as any choice in his life. At the same time, he could not explain or articulate his reasons. It was something that he felt more than understood.

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

I do my own habitual scan. I've already completed mental check-offs of the drunks, the painfully pierced, and there have been two iced coffees and a couple sharing a starfruit. Miriam is back in her spot. I go over and ask her, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you?

Specialists debated whether to pull the plug, but Texas only executes people on death row, not when they're brain-dead, because it might mean culling most of their politicians.

What if I become a lawyer?' 'Please don't do that,' says Ruiz. 'Why not?' 'They're like monkeys who get dressed up and fling poo at each other.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done

There are some adventures not worth having.

He came to a decision and looked at Dagon before climbing into the car. "Find the Disir." Dagon stiffened, showing a rare sign of emotion. "Is that wise?" he asked. "It is neccessary.

An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never—ever—tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.

Josh heeft een zonnebril nodig en ik ook,' zei Sophie, 'en water.' 'Die kopen we straks wel.' 'We hebben ze nu nodig,' zei ze resoluut. ... 'Water en zonnebrillen,' zei hij. 'Nog een specifieke kleur zonnebril?' vroeg hij sarcastisch. 'Zwart,' antwoordde de tweeling in koor.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

In response to the IPCC's decision to let the exaggerators write the Summary for Policymakers, Tol resigned. "I simply thought it was incredible," he said. "I told Chris Field, the chairman, about this, and I quietly withdrew.

In the end, then, suffrage for women came down to the vote of one young man, influenced by his mom. It was rumored that "the anti-suffragists were so angry at his decision that they chased him from the chamber, forced him to climb out a window of the Capitol and inch along a ledge to safety."15 Thus suffrage arrived in the United States, kicking and screaming.

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's.

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

you either are or aren't

If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.