Quotes About Decision

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.

They're always like, 'Would my character really do this or really do that?' And I'm like, 'Who gives a shit? Just make them do it, you coward. Don't be so passive.' You and I, we're in charge of what we can do and what we can't do.

I have to go back home for a while." "Ohio?" "Omaha." "Right. Omaha. Why?

In their divorces—maybe in every divorce in the history of divorces—there was a moment when things could've gone either way. "Maybe this will save us before we need saving," she said.

To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)

When we call something a necessary evil, something requiring the suffering or death of a fellow creature, the evil is real and it had better be necessary.

To know and not act is to not know.

In the end, it is not what you choose to do that changes your destiny. It is what you choose to love.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them, Stevie said. Motive. Okay, Nate said. My motive is that I prefer dragons. To what? To the absence of dragons.

What do you do when the devil turns up in your living room and offers you everything you want?

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.

You want to go back to my house the long way? he asked. Or the shortcut? You have to be cold- Long way, I replied. The long way, for sure.

It was okay to give up. I'd been brave. Everyone would say so. And yet...even as I opened a dresser drawer and figured out which things I would take with me in this hypothetical scenario, I remembered the problem. There would still be ghosts. I would still have a future.

If you want, he said with a shrug. It's up to you. If you want to be lifted, I'll lift you.' Oh yes, Elsa said, refilling all the glasses. There will be lifting. Clio realized that she hadn't spoken through any of this. It was all Elsa lifting and carrying the conversation, twirling around with it. Sure, Clio said. Pick up me up. Aidan tipped his head in concession, his green eyes lit up for once. You want me to pick you up, I guess I can't refuse.

What I've got to offer you is your life.' 'It's not yours to offer...

A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.

What I mean is, what makes people unhappy is not too little choice, but too much, said Mitchell Layton. having to decide, always to decide, torn every which way all of the time. Now in a society of pattern, a man could feel safe. Nobody would come to him all the time pestering him to do something. Nobody would have to do anything. What I mean is, of course, except working for the common good.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Nobody stays in this valley except by a full, conscious choice based on a full, conscious knowledge of every fact involved in his decision. Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.

I've always been short on time in my life, never on what to use it for.