Quotes About Decision

After all, we're blessed with doctors. I brought him two doctors. So they argued with each other. One said operate, the other said don't. Meanwhile, the patient died.

In short, he kept waiving me such waivers that I waved goodbye to him and went to see a third lawyer, that's where I went.

I should have listened to my mother when she said, "Never throw your luck out with the dish-water …

You know what, Mendl? Listen to your wife, tell Odessa where it can go, and come home to Kasrilevke.

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

This is perhaps the real secret of heroism. The rational basis of heroism is dependent upon the decision that one's own life cannot be worth as much as certain abstract common ideals. But I believe that instinctive or impulsive heroism is much more frequently independent of such motivation and simply defies danger on the assurance which animated Hans, the stone-cutter, a character in Anzengruber, who always said to himself: Nothing can happen to me.

What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who were these people?

At a certain point in her life, she realizes it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child' (109).

Between religion and knowledge, he said, a person must choose knowledge.

All of this could have been different if both of his parents had taken a breath.

There was nothing on yet except for the tobacco reports, so I snapped the radio back off and tried to figure out where to go.

thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

The overwhelming experience of tragedy is a disorientation expressed in one bewildered and frequently repeated question: What shall I do?

Shit . . . Well, in for a sestertius, in for a denarius.

Forgetting is something time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision

I stood up and looked in his direction, at his folded hands. Between then there seemed to rest a sunflower. At last I made up my mind and without a word I left the room.

The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

the first axiom in flight school: takeoff is voluntary, but landing is compulsory.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.