Quotes About Decision

2012 the Pentagon said it wanted to buy fewer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes than had been planned—the single-engine fighter has been plagued by cost overruns and technical glitches—but the contractors and their friends on Capitol Hill vowed to fight the decision.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

The decision as to whether to risk one's actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is." from The structure of desire and recognition

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do — just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor goodCompensate bad in man, absolve him so:Life's business being just the terrible choice.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made

The tragedy is that the architects, by making a premature decision, multiplied the development effort enormously.