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Quotes About Decision

nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Marilla somut gerçeÄŸin güvenli yolu dururken, soyutluÄŸun ÅŸüpheli patikalar?na girmeyecekti.
~ L.M. Montgomery
KeÅŸke bir ÅŸey yapmadan önce düÅŸünseydik çünkü o zaman baz? ÅŸeyleri yapmazd?k.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth," she cried, "the kitten wasn't drowned after all—and I am going to keep it." "You're not," said Aunt Elizabeth. Emily looked her aunt in the face. Again she felt that odd sensation that had come when Aunt Elizabeth brought the scissors to cut her hair. "Aunt Elizabeth, this poor little kitten is cold and starving, and oh, so miserable. It has been suffering for hours. It shall not be drowned again.
~ L.M. Montgomery
What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
~ L.M. Montgomery
He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?
~ L.M. Montgomery
I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were unavoidable in cycling, and so was bad luck, and if you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
~ Lance Armstrong
If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.
~ Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
Many people strategize themselves into the wrong businesses.
~ Larry Bossidy
Sometimes there's no way around it—you have to let people go. But again you do it as constructively as you can.
~ Larry Bossidy
Without realizing it, he had been wasting time—years and years of time, time that would never be his again. He had failed to take advantage of the diversity of opportunity that had been, all along, available to him.
~ Larry McMurtry
Well, boys, Long Bill said. I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.
~ Larry McMurtry
The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.
~ Larry McMurtry
Well, we've never had a divorce in our family, Aurora said, but if we have to have one, Tomas is a good place to start.
~ Larry McMurtry
A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.
~ Larry McMurtry
I'll pass on snow myself, when I have the option.
~ Larry McMurtry
She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it.
~ Larry McMurtry
He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.
~ Larry McMurtry
None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring ... There was much more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.
~ Larry McMurtry
What if I hit the man?" Newt said. "That's his worry," Call said. "Not letting him ride away is your worry." They
~ Larry McMurtry
I said we oughta get married," Louisa said loudly. "What I like about you is you're quiet. Jim talked every second that he didn't have a whiskey bottle in his mouth. I got tired of listening. Also, you're skinny. If you don't last, you'll be easy to bury. I've buried enough husbands to take such things into account. What do you say?
~ Larry McMurtry
The hammer has fallen.
~ Larry Niven
A sword could be used on oneself. Just turn it around. Jump from the top of a rock?
~ Larry Niven