Quotes About Decision

To serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

Tom offered me a cigarette. The implication was that I was going to need it. Therefore, obviously, I refused it.

All of a sudden, something began to stir within me, something began to push me, to prompt me. It was a movement that spoke like a voice. "What are you waiting for?" it said. "Why are you sitting here? Why do you still hesitate? You know what you ought to do? Why don't you do it?

It is easier to serve the hate-gods because they thrive on the worship of collective fanaticism. To serve the hate-gods, one has only to be blinded by collective passion. To serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

You can only cruse the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.

There is a danger of becoming too logical. At the end of the day one can only consult one's heart.

he had given the Kaffir a choice

The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear into those who oppose their agenda but also by their ability to create a climate of opinion which richly rewards those political leaders whose decisions are consonant with the vision of the intelligentsia.

When the anointed say that there is a crisis this means that something must be done—and it must be done simply because the anointed want it done.

One-day-at-a-time rationalism risks restricting its analysis to the immediate implications of each issue as it arises, missing the wider implications of a decision that may have merit as regards the issue immediately at hand, considered in isolation, but which can be disastrous in terms of the ignored longer-term repercussions.

The feeling that the government should "do something" has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not "do something.

Surrogate decision making is the common thread in the highly disparate crusades which have captured the imagination and sparked the fervor of the anointed at various times, whether this moral surrogacy was in the form of the eugenics movement, Keynesian economics, or environmentalism. All urgently require the superior wisdom of the anointed to be imposed on the benighted masses, in order to avert disaster.

The worst political blunder in the history of civilization was probably the decision of the emperor of China in the year 1433 to stop exploring the oceans and to destroy the ships capable of exploration and the written records of their voyages. . . The decision was the result of powerful people pursuing partisan squabbles and neglecting the long-range interests of the empire. This is a disease to which governments of all kinds, including democracies, are fatally susceptible. Freeman Dyson

Oh dear, I sometimes think... whatever should I do if anything were to... But, there, thinking's no good to any one—is it, madam? Thinking won't help. Not that I do it often. And if ever I do I pull myself up sharp, "Now, then, Ellen. At it again—you silly girl! If you can't find anything better to do than to start thinking!...

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)

J'avais décidé de me retirer de l'amour comme on fait ses adieux à la scène. Fatiguée de jouer toujours le même rôle.

Jo vair?k dz?voju, jo cieš?k p?rliecinos, ka mums reti tiek dota iesp?ja pašiem izv?l?ties. Dz?v? kaut kas atgad?s, un tad, aiziet, r?kojies. K? nu sp?j...

Let us remember, he said animatedly, that the Religious Right did not come together in response to the Roe decision. No, Weyrich insisted, what got us going was the attempt on the part of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to rescind the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University because of its racially discriminatory policies."34

Each action you take, each choice you make, will grow something in your life and in our world.

The opportunity for love is ever-present, and in every place; its manifestation relies only on free will, on our decision at any given moment to receive a gift from a loving universe.

Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of the choices not for.

Odd how a single, impulsive action could lead to a string of consequences.

You have to do something after a while, don't you?