Quotes About Decision

You can't make an omelette without cracking eggs

As far as he could tell, he'd stopped one small bunch of bad guys killing a big bunch of bad guys and as a result the good guys got chucked out of their homes by another bunch of bad guys. Did that make him good or bad? James only knew that thinking about it gave him a headache.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

I take it you're going." "Of course. Do you want to come with me?" She looked at him steadily. "If you hadn't shown me the telegram, I would have thrown the teapot at you. If you hadn't asked me to come, I would have thrown the teapot and the milk jug." "Lucky I did then," he said, smiling.

Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. If people force you to do certain work, or unrewarded work, for a certain period of time, they decide what you are to do and what purposes your work is to serve apart from your decisions. This process whereby they take this decision from you makes them a part-owner of you; it gives them a property right in you

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Do your kids a favor — don't have any.

I can't give you an answer this moment, but let me talk to my advisors and we'll get back to you with more questions.

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?

All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

You should never kid yourself about the reality that you must always give something up in order to gain something. If

In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil

He can either act as a judge or a leader….I have always believed in and endeavored to follow the active leadership role as opposed to the passive judicial role.

Scegli un libro. Ma forse lui ha scelto te.

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement. Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database.