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Quotes About Decision

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
~ George Washington
Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
~ George Washington
Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice
~ George Washington
To choose evil is to choose freedom—"freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
~ Georges Bataille
Önceden düÅŸünülmüÅŸ bir hareket deÄŸil bu, bir hareket de deÄŸil zaten, bir hareket yokluÄŸu, yapmad???n bir hareket,yapmaktan kaç?nd???n hareketler.
~ Georges Perec
Kay?ts?zl?k iÅŸe yatamaz. İsteyebilir ya da istemeyebilirsin, ne fark eder! Bir parti tilt oynamak ya da oynamamak; nas?l olsa biri ayg?t?n deliÄŸine bir yirmibeÅŸlik atacak. Her gün ayn? yemeÄŸi yemekle kararl? bir hareket yapt???n? sanabilirsin. Ne var ki reddediÅŸin iÅŸe yaramaz. Yans?zl???n hiçbir anlam ta??maz. Cans?zl???n öfken kadar abes.
~ Georges Perec
Franz Kafka'n?n vakti zaman?nda aç?klad??? gibi: Ula??lacak bir amaç vard?r ama yol yoktur; karars?zl?klar?m?za, duraksamalar?m?za yol ad?n? takar?z.
~ Georges Perec
I could have been a surgeon too,' he thought to himself. And owned a car like that. Probably not a surgeon, but it was a fact that he had almost become a doctor. He had set out to study medicine and sometimes felt a hankering for the medical profession. If his father hadn't died three years too soon …
~ Georges Simenon
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
~ Georgette Heyer
Horatia said eagerly: Oh, you will take m-me instead? No, said Rule, with a faint smile. I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child. B-but it is! said Horatia vigorously. One of us m-must marry you!
~ Georgette Heyer
It is possible," said Miss Marling stiffly, "that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of the journey." Vidal chuckled. "Not if I know my Mary," he replied
~ Georgette Heyer
Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?
~ Georgette Heyer
He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.
~ Georgette Heyer
But that's what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!
~ Georgette Heyer
Well, she had said him nay: that had been of instinct, because she loved him, and it was not in a lover's part to take the selfish course.
~ Georgette Heyer
If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?
~ Georgette Heyer
You need not be afraid that I have just fallen in love yesterday. I am quite sure of my mind in this. A month is fully long enough for that.' 'Or a day or an hour,' said the Earl musingly.
~ Georgette Heyer
Rupert is a silly boy, like the Prince de Condé! If you do not marry me, Monseigneur, I will not marry anyone!' 'That would be a pity,' he said. 'Mignonne, are you --sure?' She nodded; a tremulous smile curved her lips. 'Oh, Monseigneur, I never thought that you would be so very blind!
~ Georgette Heyer
Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly politely! that it was enough to make me jump on the Bristol coach, and ship aboard the first packet bound for America, or anywhere else that Bristol boats sail to,because I would rather live in the Antipodes than have Cordelia hanging around my neck...
~ Georgette Heyer
Fear and Love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. By choosing Love more consistently than fear, we can change the nature and quality of our relationships.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want...
~ Gerald Jampolsky
people usually choose the place they get lost in
~ Gerard Donovan
Do you want the window open?" "No. This room is too cold already," the little lady said. "You said a minute ago that it was too hot." "Well, it was, a minute ago." "Oh, dear me," said Maggie.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
If you can do it then why do it?
~ Gertrude Stein