Quotes About Decision

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

When elephants choose to dance, it is the wise man who gets out of the way.

It is all a matter of individual cost-benefit decisions: change this calculation—lessen the costs of child rearing or increase the benefits—and population level will rise; increase the costs or lower the benefits and population level will slowly decline. And these individual cost-benefit decisions are dependent upon the relation of the sociocultural system to its environment.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Paths are made by walking

Gabriele non vedeva dinanzi a sé che un inizio, il crocicchio dove le vie si dividevano. Cinque passi più avanti tutto era nebbia e tenebra. Ma avviene in ogni vita così: prima della decisione nulla è più irreale che la meta.

Perdican era el fruto de las entrañas de Rosette, que era de mi propiedad, así que me correspondía a mí tomar la decisión. A la fuerza, voté por la muerte (...) Tenía la sensación de estar traicionando a mi primer amigo del alma.

Con el caso de Perdican pude calibrar esa arbitrariedad que la especie humana ha implantado y con la que se otorga derecho de vida o muerte sobre las demás especies del planeta y decide, según su estado de ánimo, que este o aquel animal se como o no se come.

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads, Its master's step is brisk; The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads But adds unto their risk.

The pendulum he really faced was that of choice. His mind could swing one way, tick, and meet in foresight the shame of swallowed truth and swallowed pride, all the humiliation of an enforced recanting. And if he swung his thoughts the other way, tock, there they confronted the breaking agony of the boot or the rack or the slower destruction in a buried cell.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

I can't remember exactly when I decided that Konradin had to be my friend, but that one day he would be my friend I didn't doubt.

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

Mais parce que je ne pense pas, dit Néron en se relevant. -Et qu'est-ce que tu fais alors? -Je gouverne.

Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.

The reason my husband and I became Orthodox was that our mainline denomination was energetically revising its theology; church leaders were teaching that Jesus wasn't born of a virgin, he didn't do any miracles, and he didn't rise from the dead.†† After some reading, visiting churches, praying, and a whole lot of talking, we decided to join the Orthodox Church.