Quotes About Decision

As water given sugar sweetens, given salt grows salty, we become our choices.

I cast my hook, my vote against it, I decide to make peace. I declare this intention but nothing answers. And so I put peace in a warm place, towel-covered, to proof, then into an oven. I wait. Peace is patient and undemanding, it surpasseth.

Scissors. He'd pulled a credit card and a pair of scissors from the drawer. Which meant he could either bribe or stab his adversary. Or he could go into a frenzy and cut up Jill's credit card. That would confuse 'em.

Danger is everywhere, but fear, that's a choice we make.

Living in the what-ifs is dangerous.

Happiness, they say, is a decision, not just a feeling. And I have decided to get rip-roaringly drink and throw caution to the wind.

Offer Acceptable Choices Having choices gives children a sense of power: they have the power to choose one possibility or another.

When your child wants to do something else, you can say, "That isn't one of the choices. You can decide between ________ (repeat the choices available).

Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home." "I was." "What happened?" "I couldn't let her go.

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

It's incredible how enormous actions can turn on the whim of a single man.

What was the matter with her? She'd already decided she didn't want to make love with him, so why did she keep conjuring up erotic scenes from old sheikh movies? It must be the wine.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

God," Louie prayed as he walked, "You know I don't want to do that, so if You want me to go to Japan, please make it very clear. I'm a new Christian. You'll have to give me a swift kick in the pants so that I know it's really You.

Nothing's going to happen between us until you're ready for it to happen." She stared at him, stil clutching her stick in a death grip, then finally nodded and silently walked to her car. She let Toby in the backseat, then opened the passenger door and slid the tip of her stick on the floor to lean it against the console. "Jess," Ian said quietly. She turned, still not saying anything. "Just so long as you know that it is going to happen.

Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link seperately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.

I hope this doesn't come down to choosing between two of my best friends.

You can't just hop in a car and drive to California," she said. "Yes, I can." She let out a frustrated sigh. "Do you ever have that little voice in your head that tells you something is a bad idea?

Le seul risque est de ne pas en prendre

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

It did not occur to me at that time to ask God to reveal his vision for my life. On my own, following my head rather than my heart, I chose the safe path.