Quotes About Decision

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

Ma una decisione bisognava pur prenderla, e ciò gli dispiaceva. Egli avrebbe preferito continuare l'attesa, rimanere assolutamente immobile, quasi a provocare il destino affinché si scatenasse davvero.

Da qualche tempo infatti un'ansia, che lui non sapeva capire, lo inseguiva senza riposo: l'impressione di non fare in tempo, che qualche cosa di importante sarebbe successo e l'avrebbe colto di sorpresa. [...] Di giorno in giorno Drogo rimandava la decisione, si sentiva del resto ancora giovane, appena venticinque anni. Quell'ansia sottile lo inseguiva tuttavia senza riposo, [...].

But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively, and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...) Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.

Because if a woman learns to separate what she thinks from how she feels, she has a chance of making the right decision for herself.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

We must never forget that we chose to be here and we are here for a reason.

You don't need it but

He chose to feel. It is removed from his conscious process. He has no choice but to feel those things.

In July and August 1914, fewer than fifty individuals, all of them men, made the decisions that took their countries to war.

What's scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny—ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.

A quién de los dos quieren que les suelte? respondieron ellos: A Barrabás. 22 Les replicó Pilato: Pues ¿qué he de hacer de Jesús, llamado el Cristo? 23 Dicen todos: Sea crucificado. Y el presidente: Pero ¿qué mal ha hecho? Mas ellos comenzaron a gritar más, diciendo: Sea crucificado. 24

61 Y otro le dijo: Yo te seguiré, Señor, pero primero déjame ir a despedirme de mi casa. 62 Le respondió Jesús: Ninguno que después de haber puesto su mano en el arado y vuelve los ojos atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios. 10

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

You're a big boy," Ana observes, staring blankly into her cup. "You could have said no." "I stand with Oscar Wilde on the subject of temptation.

Perhaps we're not the greater good, but we are the lesser of evils.