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Quotes About Decision

It wasn't too late to turn around, before I got to the place I couldn't come back from.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
When the three of us, the three men named Alex, gathered in Father's house that night to converse the journey, Grandfather said, I do not want to do it. I am retarded, and I did not become a retarded person in order to have to perform shit such as this. I am done with it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when "one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular." Sometimes we simply have to make a decision because "one's conscience tells one that it is right.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Not making a decision —eating "like everyone else" —is to make the easiest decision, a decision that is increasingly problematic. Without question, in most places and in most times, to decide one's diet by not deciding —to eat like everyone else —was probably a fine idea.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Entweder suchen wir uns aus, was wir veraendern, oder wir werden diejenigen sein, auf die sich Veraenderungen auswirken
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.
~ Jonathan Swift
when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
~ Jonathan Swift
La libertad consiste en ser capaz de elegir entre lo que es posible para mí y hacerme responsable de mi elección.
~ Jorge Bucay
La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.
~ Jorge Bucay
Mi historia personal puede condicionar mi elección, pero no me quita la posibilidad de elegir.
~ Jorge Bucay
In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Estar contigo o no estar contigo, es la medida de mi tiempo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There is no greater comfort than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Tudo está dito: falta aposta.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
En todas las ficciones, cada vez que un hombre se enfrenta con diversas alternativas, opta por una y elimina las otras; en la del casi inextricable Ts'ui Pên, opta —simultáneamente— por todas. Crea, así, diversos porvenires, diversos tiempos, que también proliferan y se bifurcan.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
L'esecutore di un'impresa atroce immagini di averla già compiuta, si imponga un futuro che sia irrevocabile come il passato
~ Jorge Luís Borges
El pecado, como la virtud, no depende de la naturaleza, sino, esencialmente, de la voluntad.
~ José Antonio Fortea
Llega un momento en que Dios decide no enviar más gracias de arrepentimiento. Pues cada gracia de arrepentimiento sólo puede ser superada, sólo puede ser vencida, afirmándose más en el odio. Llega un momento en que Dios ve que enviar más gracias sólo sirve para que el demonio afiance más lo que ha escogido su voluntad.
~ José Antonio Fortea
If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and in all things trust. And trust requires that dissent come out into the open, and that it be seen as disagreement.
~ Joseph A. Maciariello
As you grow older, you will have a decision to make. Will you focus more on the things that give you achievement and satisfaction and growth or on things that have an impact outside yourself?
~ Joseph A. Maciariello
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
~ Joseph Brodsky
A bird may twitter a better song. But should you consider abortion wrong or that the quacks ask too high a fee, come to this wall, and see.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
~ Joseph Campbell