Quotes About Decision

His eyes were hazed with memory, the way I imagined the blue glass of a doll's might look if it had been left for too long on an abandoned nursery, light streaming pitilessly through bare windows until the cheap glass clouded and cracked. Had he seen Kick's illness right from the beginning and decided it was too hard?

His forehead glistened. He knew me, what I might do if he pushed too hard. Something was so important to him that he thought it was worth the risk; I would have to hurt him or listen.

Not that I'm sure I want to have a child, you know? We've enough to deal with, with Jink's two. But it would be nice to have the choice. It would make me feel as though I belong.

Hild watched them and the other not-yet-girdled girls-Cille and Leofe, who were already meant for each other, and half a dozen younger-and wondered when her mother might choose her gemæcce and who it might be.

A gift. From a king. To her as the light of the world. What should she do?

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

There is nothing more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an "ethical dilemma".

I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator—the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.

Today, I choose life! Tomorrow, well it is not here yet.

If you do something just because of how you feel that is not a good action at all.

Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

What has made you come to such a sudden decision?" asked the perplexed Vassili (very nearly he added: "Fancy going travelling with a man whose acquaintance you have just made, and who may turn out to be a rascal or the devil knows what!" But, in spite of his distrust, he contented himself with another covert scrutiny of Chichikov, and this time came to the conclusion that there was no fault to be found with his exterior).

Siccome l'uomo russo nei momenti decisivi conserva la presenza di spirito, e fa quel che c'è da fare senza inoltrarsi in altri ragionamenti, così, prendendo a destra al primo incrocio, egli gridò: "Forza su, rispettabili amici", e si lanciò al galoppo senza preoccuparsi troppo di pensare a dove conducesse la strada che aveva preso.

No ma cosa devo fare, cretino, cosa devo fare? Giudica tu: perché dovrei comperare delle cose che non mi sono assolutamente necessarie?

Cigarettes are always costly than brick blocks..... Be wise.

She turned and walked a few steps, paused, then walked back to me. "You don't love him." Her face had utterly changed. From contained and still to wide-eyed and tremulous. "It would be bad enough if you did. But since you don't, please leave him to the person who does.

A man does like it when a woman tries, especially when she's foreign to him, as his wife had become the moment he'd decided to tell her he was leaving.

Harm could be wrought by inaction as much as action. And

Neoteny, the choice not to metamorphose. If it was good for the axolotl, then it was good for Consuelo.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.