Quotes About Decision

You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow.

Why all the guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—                               I took the road less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —ROBERT FROST

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. Right. Yes. The usual choices.

I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

What could he have done or said differently? What change would have altered the course of events? In the big picture, nothing. In the small picture, so much.

You are of course fully in control of what you choose to read

Such regrets are of no practical use. I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I took the one most travelled by. It was littered with corpses, as such roads are. But as you will have noticed, my own corpse is not among them.

Fear is synonymous with the future, and the future consists of forked roads, I should say forking roads, because the roads are forking all the time, like slow lightning. A road is a process, not a location.

There is a Do this or Do that with God, but not any Because.

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

Forced to chose between one irascible tyrant and another, Laura had chosen the one which was greater, and also further away.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning

We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

Nothing is ever settled," says Jocelyn. "Every day is different. Isn't it better to do something because you've decided to? Rather than because you have to?