Quotes About Decision

She said she would not go ahead with surgery.

After a momentary hesitation, he decided to join me.

I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.

I think now what was most important was not what I chose to do so much as that I was conscious of being able to choose, and having chosen, was empowered from having made a decision, done a strike for myself, moved.

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

Now he was the dish of wrapped peppermints next to the cash register that I didn't want because they were free. Because

As charming as the room was, I knew it wouldn't work for me. I do not need charming. I need to be online, at all times. I need surge protection.

To live in regret and change nothing else in your life is to miss the entire point.

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain?

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

How do you always manage to decide? How can you let others decide for you?

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . .

They have to take a chance, everything they do is taking a chance, but they feel so much safer when they take it on something they know to be ugly, vain and stupid.

If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind—follow your mind.

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved.

He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question in his mind. He did not think of dying. He thought only that he wished to find joy and reason and meaning in life-and that none had been offered to him anywhere.

It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

the only thing that can make a man do something he doesn't like is guilt

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.

It's time to find New Cheese." Hem argued, "But what if there is no Cheese out there? Or even if there is, what if you don't find it?" "I don't know," Haw said. He had asked himself those same questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was. He asked himself, "Where am I more likely to find Cheese—here or in the Maze?