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Quotes About Decision

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Su decisión habia sido permanecer en aguas profundas y tenebrosas, lejos de todas las trampas y cebos y traiciones. Mi decisión fué ir allá a buscarlo, mas allá de toda gente. Mas allá de toda gente en el mundo. Ahora estamos solos uno para el otro y así ha sido desde mediodía. Y nadie que venga a valernos, ni a él ni a mí.
~ Ernest Hemingway
For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I don't want to fool with it but what choice have I got? They don't give you any choice now. I can let it go; but what will the next thing be? I didn't ask for any of this and if you've got to do it you've got to do it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?
~ Ernest Hemingway
You're going to have things to repent, boy," Mr. John had told Nick. "That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A plan was a plan and a decision was truly a decision and knowing all this and having been well educated in the usages of divorce, Thomas Hudson was happy that a compromise had been made and that the children were coming for five weeks. If five weeks is what we get, he thought, that is what we draw. Five weeks is a good long time to be with people that you love and would wish to be with always.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don't think, old man,' he said aloud. 'Sail on this course and take it when it comes'. But I must think, he thought. Because it is all I have left.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nunca salgas de viaje con una persona que no amas.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But why did I ever leave Tom's mother in the first place? You'd better not think about that, he told himself.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno, ma ciò che farai in tutti i giorni che verranno dipende da quello che farai oggi.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He dressed and unbolted
~ Ernest Hemingway
As he had been thinking for months about leaving his wife and had not done it because it would be too cruel to deprive her of himself, her departure was a very healthful shock.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oggi non è che un giorno qualunque di tutti i giorni che verranno. Ma quello che accadrà in tutti gli altri giorni che verranno può dipendere da quello che farai oggi
~ Ernest Hemingway
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God. Some people have God, I said. Quite a lot. He never worked very well with me. Should we have another Martini? The barman shook up two more Martinis and poured them out into fresh glasses.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. -
~ Ernest Hemingway
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch." "Yes." "It's sort of what we have instead of God.
~ Ernest Hemingway
like Ned was killed. We made her go and we hired
~ Ernest J. Gaines