Quotes About Decision

I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

I'm never going to get married. You're crazy. Buddy brightened. You'll change your mind. No. My mind's made up.

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

My mother smiled. I know my baby wasn't like that. I looked at her. Like what? Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital. She paused. I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

When am I going to see you? Do you really want to know? Very much. Never, I said, and hung up with a resolute click.

My mother smiled. I knew my baby wasn't like that. I looked at her. Like what? Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital. She paused. I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city? And you said... And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?

Finally I decided that if it was so difficult to find a redblooded intelligent man who was still pure by the time he was twenty-one I might as well forget about staying pure myself and marry somebody who wasn't pure either. Then when he started to make my life miserable I could make his miserable as well.

I made a decision about Doreen that night. I decided I would watch her and listen to what she said, but deep down I would have nothing at all to do with her.

I decided not to go down to the cafeteria for breakfast. It would only mean getting dressed, and what was the point of getting dressed if you were staying in bed for the morning?

from the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked… but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as i sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

It never occurred to me to say no

I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the wayside. And that will be poetic justice.

From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

I have a lot to give someone, someday. But I must not be too Christian. I can only end up with one, and I must leave many lonely by the wayside. So that is all for now. Perhaps someday someone will leave me by the same idea. And that will be poetic justice..

It was only after seeing Irwin's study that I decided to seduce him.

I felt moved and tender and perfectly certain about what I was going to do.

Where are you going?' I was about to say, 'Back to the asylum', but the man looked promising, so I changed my mind.

I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions

I have the choice of being active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract ...

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.