Quotes About Decision

decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.

Lord," he said heavily. "Lord, this isn't exactly what I had in mind." But he knew he was going to marry that girl anyway.

what-ifs went around and around in her head. What if Mama

If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.

Come away with me and be my wife." She gave a harsh laugh. "If you want a wife, send for one by mail, or wait for the next wagon train to cross the mountains." He came toward her. "I can give you a good life. I don't care how you got here or where you've been before. Come with me now.

I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.

those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts], Virginia said heatedly. Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth. She shook her head. They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!

All he'd done was change scenery, not his mind.

The result, in this world view, is that real freedom comes not from the decisions of an ego-self's "will" but from action without any Self whatsoever

Every battle has a decisive point (place, time, event, or decision on the battlefield that led to victory), but our decisive point wasn't on the battlefield. We didn't know it, but it was at that point in time, on that cold, rainy, November night, that the battle at Debecka was won.

When I give the go ahead, go ahead, Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

When I give the go ahead, go ahead. --Alyss

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? Muad'Dib

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law . Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose !

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

I succumbed to the lure of the oracle , he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?