Quotes About Decision

You see now why I cannot marry you? I would never be able to rid myself of the shame of my past. And you would not be able to forget, either.

Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]

Good idea. I'll do it.

And....and well, I can't be kissing a man. that's a good way to get tangled up...in forever

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

To leave the apple unpicked—that was sin.

I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again. "Suppose . . ." he began. "Suppose . . ." Then he moved on, one last time.

And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.

Stu asked me to marry him

I never would have shot him

Regret because you really can't control your life. Most of the time you don't act; you react.

Groothertog Fabrizio, die mijn neef is en de broer van wijlen mijn man, met wie ik zo kortstondig was getrouwd, heeft mij aangemoedigd voor de tweede keer in het huwelijk te treden. Ik geef graag gehoor aan zijn advies... Signor Guido Parola zal mijn prins-gemaal worden. - Lucia

Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning.

Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which

He wants out, Annajane thought. He does not want to marry this woman.

She looked around the room and motioned for the waitress to bring her check. Eb waited while she settled her tab.

If you have a difficult decision to make, never force it, Rob had told his boys. Weigh each alternative singly, without prejudice. If they seem to balance evenly, no advantage one way or the other, do not be deceived. There is an advantage one way or the other. If you wait long enough, it will become apparent to you and suddenly the decision will be made without difficulty, and it will be right.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

I had to go away for a few days so I called the kennel and made an appointment. I guess Bear overheard the conversation. "Love and company," said Bear, "are the adornments that change everything. I know they'll be nice to me, but I'll be sad, sad, sad." And pitifully he wrung his paws. I cancelled the trip.

Let the path become where I choose to walk, and not otherwise established.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.