Quotes About Decision

The letter came at a time in his life when the battle inside his soul could have tipped either way.

What you reject cannot be effective for you

For everything you embrace, there is a consequence

Most people have to get to a point where they don't have a choice before they'll change something.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

Herbert Sondheim had written a note, packed up his clothes, and walked out.

The real point was that it was exactly like the film Love Affair," said Sondheim, whose frames of reference were often cinematic. "They decided they would not do anything but see in six months whether they still wanted each other. So they let six months go by and then decided that they did want to see each other, so she left her husband—even though she was a Catholic—and he left my mother.

The moral high ground was at the top of a slippery slope—

Dukowski replied. "The easy solution isn't a solution, it's the fucking problem. It's too easy to have someone tell you what to do. It is harder to make your own decision. We put a certain amount of trust into the people that come to see us.

You will do what looks good to you on paper / We will do what we must.

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

The day you ever have that much control over my behavior, it will be because somebody's asking you, should she get the pine box or a plain white shroud?

He felt, and not for the first time today, that he had not made a good decision in his personal or professional life since 1989.

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

Paper." "What kind of paper? What for?" "A letter." "Business? Personal? This is for you? You're going to write a letter?" "Yes, sir." "Well, what kind of a letter is it?" Tommy considered the question for a moment, seriously. He didn't want to get the wrong kind of paper. "A death threat," he said at last.

The African patted the horse's neck and spoke to it in a velvet language, and Hanukkah caught sight of the broad ax slung across the giant's back and began to regret his decision to call attention to himself, because kindness to horses was often accompanied in soldiers by an inclination, when it came to men, to brutality

Under the circumstances, skepticism had felt like a kind of madness; to choose belief was the only way forward.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather

Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer's Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.

I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing. Harry, you sure you-- You think I have a choice?

Department administrators decided that it would be for the good of all involved to separate Ballard and Lieutenant Robert Olivas. He stayed put in RHD and Ballard was moved out, the message to her clear. Olivas got by unscathed, while she went from an elite unit to a posting no one ever applied or volunteered for, a slot normally reserved for the department's freaks and fuckups.

No, maybe you should start. I have my meeting at