Quotes About Decision

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

las palabras decidieron el curso de las acciones, tal como suele ocurrir en esta vida.

Nunca iremos a Costa Rica?

Não se trata de subir, velho ídolo mental desmentido pela história, velha cenoura que já não engana o burro. Não se trata de aperfeiçoar, de decantar, de resgatar, de escolher, de livre-abitrar, de ir do alfa ao ômega. Já se está. Qualquer um já está. O disparo está na pistola; mas é preciso apertar o gatilho, e o dedo está fazendo sinais para fazer parar o ônibus ou qualquer coisa assim.

Parto del principio de que la reflexión debe preceder a la acción

Cuántas veces la vida y no nosotros nos impone el final de un camino o de una historia pese a que creamos que somos nosotros los que lo decidimos!

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries

we can't make a decision between being sad for a little while and being wretched for the rest of our lives. Or rather we've made the decision and have trouble finding the courage to carry it through.

Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

go in the direction your head is pointed in.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn't call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i'll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

He's the sort of man who'll go to the airport but won't be able to get on board, she says

Beli thought about it a moment. Thought about La Inca waiting for her at home. Thought about the heartbreak that was beginning to fade in her. Yes. I want to go. There it was, the decision that changed everything. Or as she broke it down to Lola in her last days. All I wanted was to dance. What I got instead was "esto", she said, opening her arms to encompass the hospital, her children, her cancer, America.

You have to decide where and when, you said. If you leave it up to me I'll want to see you every day.

She should have kept running too but she beelined for home instead. Can you believe it? Like everybody in this damn story, she underestimated the depth of the shit she was in.

Ana Iris perguntou-me se eu o amava e eu falei-lhe das lâmpadas na minha antiga casa na capital, que estavam sempre a tremeluzir e uma pessoa nunca sabia se a luz se iria ou não abaixo. A gente interrompia o que estava a fazer e ficava à espera; não conseguíamos continuar enquanto as luzes não se decidissem. É assim que eu me sinto, disse-lhe eu.

Ana Iris m-a întrebat odat? dac?-l iubesc, iar eu i-am vorbit despre luminile din vechea mea cas? din capital?, despre cum pâlpâiau È™i nu È™tiai niciodat? dac? urmau s? se sting? sau nu. ÎÈ›i laÈ™i treaba deoparte È™i aÈ™tepÈ›i È™i nu poÈ›i face cu adev?rat nimic pân? nu se hot?r?sc. Asta, i-am spus, este ceea ce simt.

Right before I headed out, he said: It was the curse that made me do it, you know. I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit. It's ours too, he said.

I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.