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Quotes About Decision

If she wanted to go,' Bonnet continued, 'there's not a thing you – or anyone else – could have done to stop her. If it's any consolation, she won't have suffered. Pills, all very peaceful. Just gone to sleep and not woken up. It's what she chose.
~ Kate Mosse
But "Trust Women" doesn't mean that every woman is wise or good or has magical intuitive powers. It means that no one else can make a better decision, because no one else is living her life, and since she will have to live with that decision, not you, and not the state legislature or the Supreme Court, chances are she is doing her best in a tight spot.
~ Katha Pollitt
Even if we all decided to define personhood to include fertilized eggs and embryos and fetuses, they would not have the right to use a woman's body against her will and at whatever cost to herself. Persons are not entitled to use one another like that: Even if I am the only person in the world who can save my child by donating a kidney, the decision is still mine to make.
~ Katha Pollitt
Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.
~ Katherine Paterson
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
~ Kathleen Norris
Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.
~ Kathleen Rooney
There must have been a number of ballots marked 'no,'" he said. "But if there were, they were simply discarded. Only the 'yes' ballots counted in the official vote." His wry young face wrinkled with distress.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Instead, she got one of the books off her dresser and sat in the eading chair, stretching out her legs and gently resting her feet on he bed. She sat there gazing at Luke's sleeping face for a long ime, then stirred and opened her book. Softly, she murmured, You aren't in my future, Luke. Unless I put you there.
~ Kay Hooper
I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no—and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I suppose I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I don't know why, but it didn't seem an option for more than one of us to storm off, and I wanted to make sure that one was me.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair, I contemplated departure via the french windows.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
didn't think that humans could choose loneliness.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A fost ca la È™ah, când faci o miÈ™care È™i, chiar în clipa în care îÈ›i iei degetul de pe pies?, îÈ›i dai seama de greÈ™eala f?cut? È™i intri în panic?, fiindc? nu cunoÈ™ti înc? dimensiunea dezastrului pe care l-ai provocat f?r? s? vrei.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We're going to be leaving here soon. It's not like a game any more. We've got to think carefully.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Niki, the name we finally gave my younger daughter, is not an abbreviation; it was a compromise I reached with her father.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
És legalább az a kiváltsága megvolt, hogy élete végén elmondhatta: a saját hibáit követte el. (…) Megválasztotta, hogy milyen úton járjon az életben, s kiderült, hogy rosszul választott. Ami viszont engem illet, hát még ezt sem mondhatom el.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Never Let Me Go
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Mr Capaldi believed there was nothing special inside Josie that couldn't be continued. He told the Mother he'd searched and searched and found nothing like that. But I believe now he was searching in the wrong place. There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her. That's why I think now Mr Capaldi was wrong and I wouldn't have succeeded. So I'm glad I decided as I did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There was another life that i might have had, but i am having this one...
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Until recently, I didn't think that humans could choose loneliness.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro