Quotes About Decision

took to heart Jack's concerns about my being on the search committee. Would I be serving the church or my own ends? (Both, I decided. Two to four hundred hours of work was not a negligible contribution, and if I got material for a book as well, who could say I hadn't earned it?)

Together, you form a church in miniature and, as such, you'll choose the next minister for us all. Also, every one of you wrote the same thing in your letters. Before we leave tonight, let's see if you can figure out what it was." "Time to burn?" said Belinda. "Out of our minds?" said Adrian.

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.

Sin is when you aim for the mark (righteousness) and miss it; transgression is when you acknowledge the mark but choose to do your own thing anyway.

there comes a time when you measure how much you have to lose!

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

This was the wrong way because - because it wasn't the right way.

It's no use, Userref, I can't go back.' 'You must,' he said gently. 'This isn't about being free any more, it's more than that now.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

I, for one, don't plan on spending no time in hell. No sense in gettin' prepared for a place you ain't goin' to.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

Deep down everyone suspected that Art was unlikely to survive for more than a few days and that any rescue attempt would endanger them all, but what were the alternatives? Abandon him? Stay and watch him die?

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

When I'm 33, I quit.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.