Quotes About Decision

He was still the same boy. Still a little scared, and still wanting to do what was best. The dragon approved.

I'm stopping you," Lucy said, catching him and grabbing his arm. "You are not going to do anything so stupid… Look Septimus, you're clever. Even I know what those purple stripes on your sleeves mean, so - like Wolf Boy said - use your head.

The need to do something tends to trump the need to understand what needs to be done.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesday to shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you, i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back

That trip to The City could not have lasted more than a few days, but because my universe exploded and was expanding at such a rapid speed, time stood still. Each experience imprinted itself on me like it would a newborn child. When I came home I think I called my mother and told her I was moving to New York and I think she said something to the effect of, "I trust your judgment." It took me a few years, but eventually, that's exactly what I did.

long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.

To remain pure a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid, but the choice of a book presented some difficulties...

Only the fantasy of choice remained.

Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

she used to say she would drown herself in but because she didn't, because she died, after all, in bed, I felt she was still trying to get there. A person needs to choose his death.

I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.

The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Don't be silly, Lillian," I said, waving my hand. "If she can play any kind of instrument, I want her. Just no accordions.

It all depended on what Walter decided. If - if he really did care about Rose Barum, she wouldn't stand in his way. It was so glaringly indecent to hold on to one's husband if he wanted someone else. The trouble was that she didn't know what Walter did want, and this was one of those questions you really couldn't ask.

How can you expect me to go away with you, with this hanging over us. Just sort it out!

She decided it was time to get out of the water. If she stayed any longer, she'd go wrinkled and prune-like. Even worse, she might fall asleep and wake up only when it was cold.

It was typical that now he was being offered what he'd dreamed of he couldn't make a decision.

What good is it to know of a danger if you don't do anything about it? Maybe it's better not to know. Knowing can be a curse.