Quotes About Decision

But he had made his choice and had patiently put his life to rights afterward, though it had been years before he could sit through certain songs.

If every soldier were given his vote, no battles would ever be fought.

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window.

What a knot of history one mistake can become.

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure. Why resist that?

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard

Where does the road to ruin start? That's the point of getting all this down, I'm told. To get the handle on some choice you made. Or was made for you.

Away, down below now, single file on the path, comes a woman with four girls in tow, all of them in shirtwaist dresses. Seen from above this way they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve.

Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.

Any one moment could be like this, I thought. A continental divide.

She wanted to know did that mean getting married. I said why not. We were never getting married, we could barely pull our act together to buy a phone plan.

Nobody truly decided for themselves. There was too much information. What they actually did was scope around, decide who was looking out for their clan, and sign on for the memos on a wide array of topics.

If his decision to keep us here in the Congo wasn't right, then what else might he be wrong about? It has opened up in my heart a sickening world of doubts and possibilities, where before I had only faith in my father and love for the Lord. Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim.

I'd tried all the options with Mom and had only one place left to go on her. Cold.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

fraction of a second, before asking

Better a wise r?nin, I decided, than a naïve samurai.

right now. Today. I'd been foolish, a coward even, to have waited so

I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.

People talk about morality. Sometimes I think there's just what you can do, and what you can't. Well, I could. And I was going to.

Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.

Happiness is a choice