Quotes About Decision

At first I was for taking him back to you, myself. But my wife doesn't want me to. So, as usual, we've compromised by doing what she wants. She wants him to stay right here. Next time, his crazy luck might land him in dog heaven instead of here at Sunnybank. She says she'd rather have a live chum than a dead champion. Maybe she's right. I find she's apt to be.

The Master talked of buying a whalebone-and-steel-and-snow bull terrier, or a more formidable if more greedy Great Dane. But the Mistress wanted a collie. So they compromised by getting the collie.

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Fra le mille maniere di fare un'azione, scegliamo sempre istintivamente la peggiore.

'What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price we think the price is worth it.

As persons committed to the examined life, each of us must take a stand on each of these questions--however provisional and preliminary that stand may be.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

Todo libro que uno lee es también un libro que no lee. Nos vamos a morir. Una elección es una renuncia

Sí, vam decidir esperar i de tant fer-ho el temps se'ns en va anar de les mans.

Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.

Each was the inevitable consequence of its predecessor, and all of them stemmed from the initial decision to set the price of bread far below its real price: that is to say, rather than leave things to the natural law of supply and demand.

questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, nè domani, nè mai.

La nostra infelice era ancora nascosta nel ventre della madre, che la sua condizione era già irrevocabilmente stabilita. Rimaneva soltanto da decidersi se sarebbe un monaco o una monaca; decisione per la quale faceva bisogno, non il suo consenso, ma la sua presenza.

Dopo dodici mesi de noviziato, pieni di pentimenti e di ripentimenti, si trovò al momento della professione, al momento cioè in cui conveniva, o dire un no più strano, più inaspettatto, più scandaloso che mai, o ripetere un sí tante volte detto; lo ripeté, e fu monaca per sempre.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

In a democracy, a politician who didn't know where he stood might lose an election. In Russia, he'd lose everything.

I never had a problem reaching a decision based on imperfect information. That's just the way the world works.

part of a leader's job is to eliminate as many risks as possible.

If you have decided you are going to get rid of someone, nothing beats honesty.

There is also the question of when you should make a decision. There are probably only two times to do so - too early and too late. If I was going to err on making one of those mistakes, I far preferred to make the decision earlier rather than later. That's much easier to say than to do.

No matter what tribe you are in - you've got to hand it to the architects of the Brexit Referendum. Taking an incredibly complex decision and reducing it to a Yay or Nay vote is the perfect divide-and-conquer strategy. At a time when the 99% need to rise up against the 1% we are split right down the middle. An absolute guarantee of little change, ever.

But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young.