Quotes About Decision

It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - Ryan

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

A friend had said to me once, "Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing." And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet left.

Once every so often—at the very most—I think someone actually chooses something. Otherwise we're following something—we don't even know what it is but we follow it

She came to understand that people had to decide, really, how they were going to live.

Her grandmother said, "Don't come back. Don't get married. Don't have children. All those things will bring you heartache

What is it that William knew about me and that I knew about him that caused us to get married?

Rimase seduta al tavolo di cucina, con la schiena curva e la mano posata sul grosso stomaco. Il pensiero che in qualunque momento ne avesse sentito il bisogno avrebbe potuto uccidersi le attraversò la mente. Non era la prima volta in vita sua che ci pensava, ma in precedenza rifletteva sempre sul biglietto da lasciare.

that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it.

A. J. P. Taylor who said that the historian's inevitable task is to decide whether something that happened in history was a Good Thing or a Bad Thing.

But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war, there can be no substitute for victory.

It was time for Constantine to make a decisive intervention of his own. He cast aside his invincible sun god without a second thought. From this point on, he would consider himself a Christian in belief and deed. A month or two later, he issued his imperial Edict of Milan, which brought religious toleration to everyone in the empire, including Christians.

Ah yet, when all is thought and said, The heart still overrules the head.

De rede biedt ons vele mogelijkheden tegelijk. De intuïtie kiest daaruit feilloos de beste. Wanneer je dit onthoudt kun je je niet meer vergissen en zul je altijd de juiste keuze maken.

Een mens kan nou eenmaal niet zomaar uit- en overstappen. Als er onderweg al plekken zijn waar je misschien nog een afsprong had durven wagen, ben je er al voorbij voordat je het doorhebt. Bovendien, waarheen kan een mens anders kijken dan vooruit.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.

Davvero, Else, non vuoi più giocare?». - «No, Paul, non me la sento più. Ciao.

If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.