Quotes About Decision

No quarter will be given," he told me. "Do you understand?" I said that I did not think I could kill a man who begged me for his life, but I would try.

A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares more for his honor than for his life. If his honor requires him to fight, he fights. He doesn't count his foes or measure their strength, because those things don't matter. They don't affect his decision.

She would think I was an idiot, and I knew it. Only if I had not whistled, for the rest of my life I would remember that moment and how I had wanted to whistle but had not had the guts.

You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

The two basic problems for any overarching classification scheme in it rapidly changing and complex field call be described as follows. First, any classificatory decision made now might by its nature block off valuable future developments.

Chese now, quod she, oon of thise thynges tweye: To han me foul and old til that I deye, And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf, And nevere yow displese in al my lyf, Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair, And take youre aventure of the repair That shal be to youre hous by cause of me, Or in som oother place, may wel be. Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

Quien decide con prontitud, pronto se arrepiente»

Opta por el no antes que por el sí cuando puedas hacer algo de lo que luego te arrepentirás.

As Petrus Alphonsus says, 'If you have the ability to do a thing of which you must later repent, "Nay" is better than "Yea.

Human courtship, like courtship in other animals, has a typical time-course. Courtship effort is low when first assessing a sexual prospect, increases rapidly if the prospect reciprocates one's interest, peaks when the prospect is deciding whether to copulate, and declines once a long-term relationship is established.

Even so, Churchill's path was well-nigh unique in deserting one party for another and then deserting back again.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

O matrimónio não é a loteria. Na loteria algumas vezes ganha-se.

UNDERSHAFT. I will not call my wife Britomart: it is not good sense.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

You are a good young man, she said. But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

No, said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.

But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.