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Quotes About Decision

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
There are no have-to's, just choices
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We should be able to realize that making up our minds as to what gives us the greatest amount of pleasure and then working for it, is one of the satisfactions of life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Was it possible? She had taken me with her hoping that as a punishment my parents would not send me to middle school? Or had she brought me back in such a hurry so that I would avoid punishment? Or - I wonder today - did she want at different moments both things?
~ Elena Ferrante
You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything.
~ Elena Ferrante
Finally he had decided that he had to free Lila, even if at that moment, perhaps, she had no desire to be freed. But—he had said to himself—it takes time for people to understand what's good and what's bad, and helping them means doing for them what in a particular moment of their life they aren't capable of doing.
~ Elena Ferrante
One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.
~ Elena Ferrante
Piénsalo. Una mujer separada, con dos hijas y tus ambiciones, ha de tener en cuenta la realidad y decidir a qué puede renunciar y a qué no. No hubo palabra de esta última frase que no me disgustara.
~ Elena Ferrante
toda escolha tem sua história, muitos momentos de nossa vida estão espremidos num canto só esperando uma brecha, e no final essa brecha aparece.
~ Elena Ferrante
it is not enough therefore, simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?
~ Elias Canetti
No one have the right to choose who you will be.
~ Elias Glassmann
No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.
~ Eliezer Berkovits
I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.
~ Elif Batuman
It was like when Isabel managed not to marry the guy with the cotton mills, and it was her first taste of victory—because "she had done what she preferred.
~ Elif Batuman
Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.
~ Anthony Mackie
Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.
~ Anthony Marais
Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.
~ Anthony Powell
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
~ Anthony Powell