Quotes About Decision

He's your enemy, Donald!' 'He most certainly is not,' said Trefusis. 'Not unless I say so. He may dearly want to be my enemy, he may beg on bended knee for open hostility of the most violent kind, but it takes two to tangle. I choose my own enemies.

As Yoda had expressed it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away: "Do. Or do not. There is no try.

I am faced then with two options:  a) a nightclub filled with the rich, beautiful and famous or b) an early night alone in bed with a book.  Never has any decision been easier. The book was gripping.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. - Stephen Hawking "Black Holes and Baby Universes

he was a man of politics and a man of action.

Scientific questions cannot be decided by majority vote in any case.

Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather? He stared at me, baffled. Why the fuck would you do that?

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time .

He fell silent. For several moments they all did, and the quiet had the feel of a deliberate thing. Then Eddie said, All right, we're back together again. What the hell do we do next?

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

There's three things ye can do in any situation, girl, her father had told her once. Ye can decide to do a thing, ye can decide not to do a thing... or ye can decide not to decide. That last, her da had never quite come out and said (he hadn't needed to) was the choice of weaklings and fools.

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.

Sure I'd had second thoughts. But thoughts are not choices.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.

It always comes down to two choices; Get busy living, or get busy dying.