Quotes About Decision

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?

It was odd to think that he himself had once been on the threshold of that kind of life and that he had thrown it all away, as it were, to go out to Africa and study the ways of a so-called primitive tribe. For really, when one came to consider it, what could be more primitive than the rigid ceremonial of launching a debutante on the marriage market?

Marriage isn't necessarily the answer to all one's problems,' said Viola evasively, from which Dulcie concluded that he had not yet proposed to her.

Piers was not to be considered at all, even had he been the kind of man who might marry.

And yet, as a mother, I still felt I'd made the right decision. Daniel had advantages to offer that I simply could not. Because he was black and so was Giselle, painful as it was to go there. Because he did love his daughter madly, and maybe he'd made some points about the desirability of his being the primary parent.

Although it may not seem finished to anyone else, it's finished to you. It's your project. You did it by choice. You have the right to decide when you're done.

And you're probably spending too much time in a job that doesn't mean anything to you. A person who can't make a choice often works far below her capabilities to avoid making a commitment and to send out the message that her present job is only temporary.

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?

Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Her whole life would have been different. Her whole life had hung on whether or not a man walked down a garden path and slipped on ice. If he hadn't slipped, she would have married someone else, lived in different places, had different children, perhaps even been happy. It was a dreadful thought.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Command, deprived of personal judgment, can win no battles.