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Quotes About Decision

It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.
~ Douglas Coupland
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.
~ Douglas Coupland
Dac? am fi avut convingeri, oare am fi avut m?car curajul s? le urm?m?
~ Douglas Coupland
There was a burst of talk and radio chatter as they discussed what to do. Within minutes, they loaded the body into the back of one jeep, restrung the live wires, fixed the fence, and drove back to the portal in the hill, which then closed slowly and silently behind them.
~ Douglas Preston
It is a wager with an infinite upside and no downside. And, I might add, it is a wager every human being must make. It is not optional. Pascal's Wager—the logic is impeccable.
~ Douglas Preston
game theory, was called the "ultimatum game.
~ Douglas Preston
There is no avoidance in delay.
~ Aeschylus
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
~ Aesop
Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
~ Aesop
Do nothing without regard to the consequences.
~ Aesop
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
~ Aesop
Who shall bell the cat?
~ Aesop
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet
~ African Proverb
Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.
~ Agatha Christie
If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.
~ Agatha Christie
Good gracious, Jerry, you'll probably have to marry the girl.' Joanna was half serious, half laughing. It was at that moment that I made a very important discovery. 'Damn it all,' I said. 'I don't mind if I do. In fact - I should like it.' A very funny expression came over Joanna's face. She got up and said dryly, as she went toward the door, 'Yes, I've known that for some time...' She left me standing, glass in hand, aghast at my new discovery.
~ Agatha Christie
You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.
~ Agatha Christie
That rebellion of mine was an important turning point in my life.
~ Agatha Christie
E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back? HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom! ~Ericsson; Hilary Craven
~ Agatha Christie
I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.
~ Agatha Christie
you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.
~ Agatha Christie
Whether he acted rightly or not, I have never been sure. It was the future of a child that was at stake. A child, he felt, ought to be given the benefit of a doubt.
~ Agatha Christie
Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick
~ Agatha Christie