Quotes About Decision

What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other does," she said softly. "You must decide.

I wouldn't want to give up being what I am," I said. "I … I want to be ooloi. I really want it. And I wish I didn't. How can I want to cause the family so much trouble?" "You want to be what you are. That's healthy and right for you. What we do about it is our decision, our responsibility. Not yours." I

How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.

You want to be what you are. That's healthy and right for you. What we do about it is our decision, our responsibility. Not yours.

But an unpleasant thing should be done quickly if it must be done at all.

I like them, and … they're all I have left. But I need more time to decide. It's no small thing to commit yourself to other people.

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

Humans are freer to decide what they want," he said softly. "They only think they are," Dehkiaht replied.

Then do this. The knowledge won't harm you if you decide not to use it. You need to do this. You've taken refuge too long in doing nothing at all.

When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

Things happen. The only thing that matters is how we deal with the now. Either we face the difficult moral decisions with ever-stronger responses, or we do not. This is what separates the mensch from the asshole. Full stop.

anyone who tells you there's one reason for what they do is a liar.

They had found the courage to reject a life which no longer merited the name.

Dear brothers, we give you the right to choose your death.

He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Destiny is never clear when it arrives. Sometimes we just refuse to do what we no longer feel good about doing. These moments are mysteries in our lives, but we know everything will change.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

An ancient saying goes, "Spend three years without learning before you choose your teacher." We should select our teacher carefully enough before we become his disciple. Once we choose our teacher, we should follow him faithfully until we attain enlightenment.