Quotes About Decision

We will be going on, won't we?" "I suppose so. Somehow it seems like the right thing to do.

I mean, after everything we knew about them… we should never have ended the war the first time.

There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.

A man oughta do what he thinks is best.

If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not.

But now the rest of the adjoining cotters rose in a body, and insisted on turning me out. Is it not strange, Sir, that this most horrible of all pestilences should deprive others, not only of natural feeling, but of reason? I could make no resistance although they had flung me over the dunghill, as they threatened to do; but the two women acted with great decision, and dared them to touch me or any one in their house.

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be.

No, sir," Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

He said slowly, "You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

Stoner said to Finch, "I have no wish to retire before I have to, merely to accommodate a whim of Professor Lomax.

Nikolas was the conscious decision of his heart.

The alternative is the sword over your heads,' he said. 'I know,' I agreed unhappily. 'But that isn't the way. A sword inside us would be worse.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

we make our good luck or bad luck with our choices, actions and how we deal with the results.

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.

There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Ró?a. She didn't have to choose.

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.

Io sono tutta presa dalla curiosità per questo futuro incerto, dalla sensazione di essere ormai libera dagli ostacoli degli uomini; tutta presa dalla gioia di sentire che ciascun giorno, d'ora in poi, sarà nuovo, e che nessuno di essi sarà uguale all'altro; tutta presa dalla decisione di osservare, d'ora in poi, una sola regola: quella di camminare diritto davanti a me.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

I would rather be faithful to my future than to my past, if it becomes a matter of choice.

if I take that shotgun

If she didn't go, she'd wonder