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Quotes About Decision

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
~ Edmund Burke
A revolution will be the very last resource of the thinking and the good.
~ Edmund Burke
Everyone knew that the RNC had decided to field a losing candidate in November, rather than gamble on one who would radicalize its traditional platform.
~ Edmund Morris
When a judge decides a constitutional question, when he decides what the people as a whole can and cannot do, the people should have the right to recall that decision if they think that it is wrong. We should hold the judiciary in all respect, but it is both absurd and degrading to make a fetish of a judge or of any one else.
~ Edmund Morris
When you see a book you want, buy it instantly because you may never find it again.
~ Edmund White
Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down.
~ Edna O'Brien
They have decided to chance it, the healer's farm being only twenty miles off the main road and in her now, gusts of hope, the morbid gloom of earlier brushed away. Something so sacred about this man using his own blood, as did the Savior.
~ Edna O'Brien
But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.
~ Edward Bloor
They soon experienced, that those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre. 
~ Edward Gibbon
You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.
~ Edward Gorey
A situation comes up, and either you do this or that, or maybe a third alternative comes up. But you simply do not choose. You never really choose anything. It's all presented to you, and then you have alternatives.
~ Edward Gorey
If I had my life again, I'd act differently. It's hard for a man if he thinks his wife doesn't respect him.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Unfortunately he's just sold all his stock. We gave him the funds today." "Sold everything?" "I tried to persuade him not to, but he came in on Monday and said he'd decided not to tempt fate." The clerk smiled. "Said he'd had a sign from St. Anthony.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Het probleem van dingen doen die je eigenlijk niet wilde, was dat je je er opeens zo duidelijk van bewust werd wat voor andere dingen je allemaal had kunnen doen.
~ Edward St Aubyn
Daniel Kahneman astutely observed, "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.
~ Edwin H Friedman
Money does not give a trader more comfort, because, rich or poor, he can make mistakes and it is never comfortable to be wrong.
~ Edwin Lefevre
No, sir, nobody can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.
~ Edwin Lefevre
This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There's no point delegating a decision if you won't accept the outcome.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Then take them there. They can still change their minds, can't they? But you make sure Rack understands that he owes us both a finder's fee, if they pass his tests." "They will," Mr. Quindar said. "Got a nose for these things, I 'ave. And these sisters ain't slipping through my fingers.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.
~ Alastair Reynolds
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
~ Albert Camus
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
~ Albert Camus
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
~ Albert Ellis