Quotes About Decision

I don't want the George Clooney lifelong bachelorhood. If I found the right person, I would commit in a minute.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'

'Empire' was already given its green light. I was like, 'Alright, this makes perfect sense. They wouldn't be going this hard on me if I didn't have it.' So it was last minute when I learned, you know, it's a business decision. That was my fault.

for one hundred years people have believed that the 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that "corporations are persons." But this book will show that the Court never stated this: it was added by the court reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision, a commentary called a headnote.

Parasta päättämisessä on että päättää antaa olla. Jos on mahdotonta ymmärtää, on lopetettava ymmärtäminen ja vain kuvattava. Ja koska mitään asiaa ei voi käsittää, on vain tehtävä asioista selko.

This is a difference between nuclear weapons and bayonets. It is not in the number of people they can eventually kill but in the speed with which it can be done, in the centralization of decision, in the divorce of the war from political processes, and in computerized programs that threaten to take the war out of human hands once it begins.

At some point several appear to decide that the flow of pedestrians is large enough to be safe and they join it, enlarging it further and making it safe for a few who were still waiting and who now join. Soon, even the timid join what has become a crowd. The drivers see they no longer have any choice and stop.

The observed outcome may be one that everybody prefers, it may be one that nobody prefers, or it may be one that some prefer and others deplore.

People behave sometimes as if they had two selves, … The two are in continual contest for control.

Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Done because we are too many.

The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

Feeling had indeed smothered judgment that day.

he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one; though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays.

He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success.

Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand.

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.