Quotes About Decision

Era un consejo demasiado bueno como para que yo pudiera seguirlo.

We are given two choices—famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other.

I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.

Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Le risoluzioni definitive si prendono sempre e soltanto per uno stato d'animo che non è destinato a durare. — Chi l'ha detto? — Marcel Proust. Non sbagliava mai, quello.

Solo a Hélène non riusciva a mentire. -è proprio necessario che parta, Baldabiou? -No. -E allora perché? -Io non posso fermarlo. E se lui vuole andare laggiù, posso solo dargli una ragione in più per tornare.

Vi?š pien?ca tuv?k. K?du br?di v?roja putnu m?ju, uzman?gi nop?tot visas va?? atraut?s durvis. - Tie atgriez?sies. Vienm?r ir ?oti gr?ti pretoties k?rdin?jumam atgriezties, vai ne?

Non se ne doveva dedurre che avessero cambiato idea: sarebbe stato in ogni caso troppo faticoso. Una volta deciso, non si cambiava mai, in quella casa, per evidenti ragioni di economia delle emozioni.

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.

Don't talk about going travelling. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag and it just happens

Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.

Make a list of what you know, what you don't know, and what you'd like to know. Make a list of possible outcomes. Choose the outcome you think is best, then go for that!

it was difficult to think what to do, and, as she often did in such circumstances, Mma Ramotswe decided that the best thing to do would be to go shopping.

That place is the place we have always been, and if you think that where you have been is where you should be, then why go to another place that you do not know at all and may not be as good as the place you were in before somebody came along and said to you that you must go forwards—which is not what you wanted to do?

A road followed in faith was the road that led nowhere, because it stopped, suddenly and without warning, at a sign which said, unambiguously, Wrong way.

Things I'll never do. You would not feel uncomfortable reading that list, as you will have already admitted that these are things you do not want to do—and will not do.

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. I'll take the shoes, she said firmly.

But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it. ...it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person.

But she had never once regretted what she had done under the influence of tea, and would not start doing so now.