Quotes About Decision

Sean halted. Do I get a good-bye kiss? It will just make things harder, Sean. You chose your road. You should follow it and not look back.

I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.

wise man once said, "A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins." I really liked that quote. It explained why, even though I was reasonably intelligent, I kept finding myself doing something really stupid.

She stared at him, stunned. He braced himself. "We need the guns, Elara." "And you just made that decision without me?" Her voice was so sharp, he wanted to check himself for cuts.

Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

De las tres formas de Estado, la democracia es, en el sentido propio de la palabra, necesariamente un despotismo, porque crea un poder ejecutivo en el que todos deciden sobre alguien y, en su caso, contra alguien (es decir, contra quien no esté de acuerdo con los demás), con lo que deciden todos, que no son realmente todos. Esto es una contradicción de la voluntad general consigo misma y con la libertad.

An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed.

Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering—to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right.

THE THING ABOUT second chances is knowing what to do with them if they're given to you.

Dio mio, aiutami!», mormorò. Mai, dalla sua infanzia, aveva pregato. Fulminea lo attraversò l'idea di fermarsi nell'androne di una chiesa che aveva scorto sulla strada. Sì, tornare indietro, inginocchiarsi sui gradini di quella chiesa, implorare Dio!... Ma no, era impossibile, bisognava fare in fretta, fare in fretta!

Ci vuole così poco per spostare la vita in questa o in quella direzione!

even a person who decides to forgo treatment does not necessarily choose death. Rather, he chooses life without the burden of disproportionate medical intervention.

she had a life-threatening illness and was too ill to speak for herself, she did not want any invasive measures to prolong her life: no surgery, no CPR, no mechanical ventilation, no artificial nutrition and hydration.

And you'll put a deposit on the house tomorrow?

What a queer gamble our existence is. We decide to do A instead of B and then the two roads diverge utterly and may lead in the end to heaven and to hell. Only later one sees how much and how awfully the fates differ. Yet what were the reasons for the choice? They may have been forgotten. Did one know what one was choosing? Certainly not.

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.

In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide.

There are moments when, if one rejects the simple and obvious promptings of duty, one finds oneself in a labyrinth of complexities of some quite new kind.

The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

A less courageous person would have felt that it was too late, they would have felt ashamed, they would think wellI don't want this, I know I shall hate it, it's all wrong, but I'm so involved now I'll have to put up with it, and I know that later on I'll keep on wishing that I'd had the nerve to say no, even at the last minute....

She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.

But the tomorrow upon which I was to make my decision never, in the form in which I had envisaged it, arrived.