Quotes About Decision

The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?

When was it exactly that I became... this? By small degrees, I suppose. Once act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and fine we are... this.

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

never worry about what has been done, only about what will be.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

The pilot of a foundering vessel, perhaps, looking to his captain, silently asking if they really did intend to go down with the ship. Perhaps that's why captains do go down with their ships. No better ideas.

There is a time for wondering what a man wants, and there is a time for splitting his head. This is that second time.

He glanced at the mayhem beyond the walls. "The time has come for someone to nobly sacrifice themselves. In the absence of anyone better qualified… it will have to be me.

Ponedad nije preterano važno šta odlu?iš, bitno je da odlu?iš brzo i držiš s svoje odluke.

Some things have to be done. It's better to do them than to live with the fear of them. That's what my father used to tell me.

But some things have to be done. Better to do 'em, than to live with the fear of 'em.

People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

Once you set your mind on killing, it is hard to choose the number of the dead.

It's easy to scream about the fence when you're on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people's sacrifices aren't that hard to make.

Misjudgement is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Which side are we on, then?" "That's one o'those questions you try not to answer till you have to.

If you wait till they seem bad, you've waited way too long.

Still, as Logen Ninefingers had been so very fond of saying: it was better to do it, than to live with the fear of it.

What happens now?' 'The people will decide,' said Pike. Orso glanced about him. At the people. 'Really?' He gave a puzzled smile. 'Are they equipped for that?

Conscience is an excuse not to do what needs doing.

Better to do it,' Logen whispered under his breath, 'than live with the fear of it.

The only choice was between falling on rocks or falling on water, and that was a choice that more or less made itself.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky What Freedom Looks Like The point of the shovel bit into the ground with the sharp scrape of metal on earth.