Quotes About Decision

It seems to Werner that the space between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other. He thinks of the girl who may or may not be in the city behind him.

Werner lunges for Volkheimer's rifle. All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

How do you ever know that you are doing the right thing?

Gone or resolved to go; is there much difference?

cost-benefit analysis.

Good evening, he thinks. Or heil Hitler. Everyone is choosing the latter.

He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.

every timidity eventually turns into regret.

Do we choose who we love?

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?

the cautious Octavius felt that he was too inexperienced to carry off a bold action of this kind.

He should, at least temporarily, take the less dangerous course of acting like a private citizen.

Antony was eventually persuaded to back Octavian and abandon any thought of going over to Sextus.

This was a disastrous error in judgment, as Brutus and his friends now realized.

Octavian decided that they should be put to death.

Tiberius was persuaded to remain silent. The matter was closed.

Octavian merely replied: "That's a matter for the carrion birds to decide.

both Sextus' fleet and infantry held back. This was a serious error

You must show yourself a man now and consider what you ought to do, and implement your plans as fortune and opportunity allow.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

So the issue came down to whether plotting to commit treason could be equated with the act of treason itself. Cato was in no doubt that this was so, but he was arguing in the heat of the moment. In the final analysis, he and the other Senators were behaving not as legal experts but as politicians forced to come to a quick decision in an emergency. Nobody at the time challenged their right to do so.

From "Palatine" derives the word "palace," meaning that enclosed space where autocrats make decisions in private

Treaty or no treaty, here was an opportunity to dispose of Sextus.

No, far better for the queen to be persuaded to do away with herself.