Quotes About Decision

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"

The only difference between your average man and a hero is that the hero figures out what to do before it's too late,' He nudged her aside and, with a few pulls, filled her bucket. 'Then he has the nerve to go on and do it.' Betsy leaned back as if she was trying to get a complete view of him from head to toe. 'Is that all it takes to make a good hero?' 'One more thing. A hero always comes back for his lady.

Sweetheart, there's not enough money in the world to make messing with you worth it—not unless I was plumb crazy about you." From

then. She needed to make a decision. "Which room is yours?" Weston tugged at the bottom of his vest with both hands, pulling it tight against his body. "Uh, you can stay wherever you want.

You want to hear what kind of woman I'd accept as a wife? Tall enough to fit under my chin, sunny hair, warm disposition, backbone to argue her side of the matter, grace to give in when she sees it's important to me. Someone who understands what I do and respects me for it. You find me a woman like that, and I may have to rethink my decision not to wed.

But he could see only two ways past his fear of loving Beth—drawing closer or pulling away, and neither was tenable.

So what to do? . . . She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.

then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities. We may be wrong. We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have a reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure. We nine can't understand how you three are still so sure. Maybe you can tell us.

Decision making is a skill.

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

Which thread shall I choose, Lord? There are so many. They hang before my eyes like strands of silk in a doorway. Each promising that it will weave the finest tapestry of my life. But it is not my tapestry. It is not my life. So again I ask, which thread do I choose? Which strand will pass through the very eye of the needle?

Stop right there, that's exactly where I lost it See that line? I never should've crossed it Stop right there, I never should've said that It's the very moment that I wish that I could take back

When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

debate continues. In my hem or in my hand? I

Entre les deux coups de feu qui décidèrent de son destin, il eut le temps d'appeler une mouche : Madame.

L'acquiescement éclaire le visage. Le refus lui donne la beauté.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The shortest distance between two points may well be the wrong way on a one way street.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort. Some people get a jump on the morning in other ways—

If there are ever times when I would regret the choice York is making, it is times like these, when life feels like another page waiting to get turned.