Quotes About Decision

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

Nicht der Weg war das Ziel. Das Ziel hatte einen Weg, und den musste man irgendwann einschlagen.

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road?

Did I say I wasn't ready to think about true love? Maybe I'll take that back.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Mr. Granby next time you two have

Five Focusing Steps 1. IDENTIFY the system's constraint. 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system's constraint. 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decisions. 4. ELEVATE the system's constraint. 5. If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken Go back to step 1, but do not allow inertia to cause a system constraint.

IDENTIFY the system's constraint(s). 2. Decide how to EXPLOIT the system's constraint(s). 3. SUBORDINATE everything else to the above decision. 4. ELEVATE the system's constraint(s). 5. WARNING!!!! If in the previous steps a constraint has been broken, go back to step 1, but do not allow INERTIA to cause a system's constraint.

Was I unjust, Caroline? but his mention of secresy instantly filled my mind with a supposition that his words wore one form, and his intentions another. I warned him to depart. I told him, I despised concealment; that I had ever scorned to separate my wishes from my acts, or my actions from my words. I said, his caution pointed out my duty. I bade him, as I then thought a final adieu.

Your choice requires courage, determination, and commitment—and personal ownership.

what kind of woman would wantonly marry and adopt such a name? Shittlehope.

Forgiveness is cheaper than permission.

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

My Prince, Gavin thought, I seriously question your judgment.

The man Elizabeth had called her Elf never glanced down. His eyes sparkled in the lanterlight as he rubbed a glove forefinger against his thumb, and visibly came to a decision.

Kusanagi-Jones had only one idea, and it involved doing something he hadn't willingly done in his adult life.

Kit hesitated in the half-crumbled archway, the torches failing to illuminate the darkness beyond.

I'll say this Wainwright. When she chooses a side, she doesn't screw around.

There were times to rise to the bait, and times not to.

Was it different if you went in knowing you had made the decision to kill? Was it different if you did it in self-defense? In defense of another? In defense of a species?

Is this Morgan's game, or the Merlin's test?

It was a morally complex equation.

Moral compromises don't stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

I…discovered I liked my own dance. So I stayed away and they requested another retreat on, which they were legally obligated to give me. And that I decided I wasn't going back at all.