Quotes About Decision

Don't decide yet, Hephaestus advised. Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

A battle can be won before it's ever fought by choosing the right ground.

June smiled. So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?

The wind god Favonius had warned him in Croatia: If you let your anger rule you … your fate will be even sadder than mine. But how could his fate be anything but sad? Even if he lived through this quest, he would have to leave both camps forever. That was the only way he would find peace. He wished there was another option – a choice that didn't hurt like the waters of the Phlegethon – but he couldn't see one.

I don't see that we have much choice, I said, since we don't have anyone who can grow wings. I will push you off this mountain, Sam warned. All right, Blitzen decided, let's try it. I mean the rune, not pushing Magnus off the mountain.

He crossed the street toward the man in the trench coat, which left me with two choices: follow my dad and see what was going on, or do what I was told. I decided on the slightly less dangerous path. I went to retrieve my sister

For once, I didn't look back.

Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead.

Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right.

I'm not choosing one of your paths, I'm making one of my own.

When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace

Note to self: If you're trying not to have kids, don't marry a lady who is the Titan of motherhood.

You cannot control your parentage, but you can choose your legacy

I can try to disable it, I said, but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die. Thalia swallowed. I trust you. Just... don't mess it up.

That wasn't my future I destroyed,' she assured herself. 'I make my own future.

So, in the first round, we have an expandable duck versus a useless metal cylinder. Our contestants are running very close indeed. ... Judging has been difficult. We have weighed the merits of Junior's boiling sludge, slag heap and useless metal cylinder against the chain-mail waistcoat, bulletproof tie and Expando-Duck. It was a close call.

We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly.

Days ago, when she faced Khione on the Argo II, Piper had started talking without thinking, following her heart no matter what her brain said. Now she did the same thing. She moved in front of the statue and faced the giant, though the rational part of her screamed: RUN, YOU IDIOT!

When in doubt, Calypso said, Tater Tots.

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.