Quotes About Decision

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

Ma," said Yasmin. She hesitated. "Will you tell me properly about… how you met Baba? How you knew you wanted to marry him." Anisah turned to a tomato plant and began snipping and plucking. "I don't know. What can I tell you? I don't know." "Did you ever have any doubts?" "Things were very difficult," said Ma, elaborating further with some intricate head movements.

I have taken time away," said Ma, "now I am going back to your father. You see? Life is not simple. You do not know what will happen with Joe." "Okay, Ma." She wouldn't argue, because Ma had used her best stubborn voice.

Convince is for thought; persuade is for action.

That's too bad, Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. You've won a goat. But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch. Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.

Are you going to eat her here, Mr. Rand, or should I prepare her to go?

Se parece a lo que Dostoievski escribió sobre el juego. Es decir, cuando a tu alrededor todo son oportunidades, es muy difícil pasar de largo sin aprovecharlas.

And so, in the end, it is simply impossible to choose one woman over another. That is how it is with them: each is bound to be trying, one way or another.

I'm not saying anything against the Modern side. Modern and Classical, they are equal, and each provides for a function in life. You must make  your free choice. Not everyone is capable of a Classical education. You must make your choice quite freely.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

When you tell someone you're sorry, it's very different from asking for their forgiveness. Your 'sorry-ness' is your decision. But when you ask someone to forgive you, that's their decision. That's why people avoid asking forgiveness. It gives all the power to the other person.

eventually our feelings caught up with our actions. We learned that married love is not a feeling. It is a decision, ... and we decided to love each other.

Norns keep the tree Yggdrassil alive. Without them, nothing would exist… They show up when you're born and decide what kind of life you're going to have. I guess they were in a rotten mood when I came along, Jack said. He loaded up the water bag and supplies. Me too, Thorgil said gravely.

El Patrón said these foods were his favorites, and Matt decided they were his favorites too.

scissors, paper, rock.

it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago.

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.

If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages.

Good times make bad policy. —Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2

It's impossible to say how much the decision to use the tsunami as an opportunity for disaster capitalism contributed to the return to civil war.

Ask him: History knocked on your door, did you answer?

Step one for getting out of a hole: Stop digging. - KC Golden