Quotes About Decision

The value of choice is not in the size of the action but in its effect

Generally, if you see Joe Ledger show up pointing a gun at you, I guess you start reexamining your conscience.

Tone is the hardest part of saying no.

In a conflict of opinion between Einstein and a fool, one wishes for Einstein to prevail. And in a conflict between Einstein and thousand fools or a million, one wishes all the more for Einstein to prevail.

Aronian made the interesting point that if I could force a passed a-pawn I might have winning chances

What all four stories tell us is that there comes a time for each of us when we must make an ultimate decision as to who we are. It is a moment of existential truth. Lot is a Hebrew, not a citizen of Sodom. Eliezer is Abraham's servant, not his heir. Joseph is Jacob's son, not an Egyptian of loose morals. Moses is a prophet, not a priest. To say yes to who we are, we have to have the courage to say no to who we are not. Pain

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Deterence is only a stay of execution, not a reprieve.

Penelope Fittes—" "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.

Doubts, like ghosts, gain strength in darkness; even with the dawn I wasn't sure I'd done the right thing.

He was very close to me. Our hands stayed on the windowsill like they were glued there. All at once he stepped back. "In the meantime," he said, "there are ghosts to foil and lives to save. But right now it's a lovely evening, and I'm going for a stroll. That was the other thing I wanted, to see if you'd come with me." He adjusted his collar. "It's the first outing for my new coat. What do you think of it?

Take me! You need a companion." "Yep," I said. "And I'm going with Lockwood." In fact, I had to hurry. I could hear him putting his coat on in the hall. "Aha…Are you? Oh, I see. Better leave you to it, then." "Right. Good." I paused. "Meaning what?" "Nothing, nothing." The evil eyes winked at me. "I'm no third wheel." "I don't

Strange, sometimes, how you make a particular choice. When it's not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind.

Strange how sometimes you make a particular choice. When it's not a specific thought or line of argument that decides you, but more a set of jumbled sensations that changes your mind

that's what being a supervisor is: it's a life of sending others out to fight and die. I've known that for a while, but it took you to make me realize I couldn't bear to continue with it. I couldn't stay at Fittes Agency. I'd rather do something else.

What do you think? Is the middle way a trifle wider?" "I was going to suggest right." "Let's go left, then. We've both got a terrible record at this sort of thing. We're almost certainly both wrong.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time.

When the time comes,' Lief said, determinedly drowning her out, 'I will follow Adin's example, and marry for love.' He glanced at her. 'if the woman I love will have me, of course.' 'She probably will,'said Jasmine. 'When the time comes.' She slipped her hand into his.

Left or right, which will you take? For both of them your heart will break. One is cruel, one is fair, One a passage, one a snare. Choose the one that hides the light, And you will know your path is right.

It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.

This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.