Quotes About Decision

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution.

Whims so often end in bankruptcy.

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man – that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

There was no scene, no tears, just thought — the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of life.

Men will always have to choose a lesser evil and the lesser evil may mean the state, the prison camp, yes, if you like to say it, the psychiatric hospital.

Sooner or later,' Heng said, and I was reminded of Captain Trouin speaking in the opium house, 'one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.

You've got to choose some line of action and live by it. Otherwise nothing matters at all.

Do you think it would be bad for me to have another glass? Vodka has never done anyone any harm.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

Jei gyvenimas jums k? nors si?lo, k? darote? Atmetate? Užsimerkiate, nusisukate? Apsimetate, kad ??jote ne pro tas duris. Tai skirta ne man, kažkam kitam...

Could she have done what she'd done today if she'd had a mother to go to? Could she have had the life she didn't yet know she was going to have? Could her mother have known, making her dreadful choice, how she had blessed her?

Who is sending the signal? What is the signal composed of? Do the neurons have meetings to discuss who does? How do all the signals going in different directions all arrive at one action?

All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn.

Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed.

Edward had inserted the plug into the wall socket. Now he picked up the lamp and upended it into the tub. He jumped away from the flash, the steam and the sparks.

The only reason he can miss you is because he's choosing, every day, not to be with you.

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

I'm going to just tell them now that I love them, blow them in the bathroom or whatever impulsive thing that you know you shouldn't do, because that will either make him want to be with me more or bail, but at least I'll know now!

If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.