Quotes About Decision

Clearly, the quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome

could cause a loss of business

If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?

This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.

Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind, with reference to the whole race of womanhood. Was existence worth accepting even to the happiest among them? As concerned her own individual existence, she had long ago decided in the negative, and dismissed the point as settled. A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad.

Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed into thy life!—that have made thee feeble to will and to do!—that will leave thee powerless even to repent! Up, and away!

Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.

confronted them now. When first presented

Although they, once again, knew nothing about the island, they decided to sail for it, belatedly realizing that the potential terrors of an unknown island were nothing compared to the known terrors of an open boat in the open ocean.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

In Farm Hall, a quiet country house outside Cambridge, ten Uranium Club scientists were waiting for a decision to be made about their fate. They had been held there since July 3, 1945, rounded up when the Nazi regime fell, along with their papers, laboratory equipment, and supplies of uranium and heavy water. Among them were Otto Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Walther Gerlach, Paul Harteck, and Kurt Diebner.

Tronstad knew that if he refused to dispatch Haukelid to take care of the ferry, the Allies would bomb Vemork again before the shipment left the plant or while the train or ferry were in motion. Many more innocent civilians would die in these scenarios.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.

And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

Should I push him or should I throw him? Howie asks. Do what comes naturally, I yelled back. I don't know, he says. This is a very unnatural thing.

Such a delicate charge as pruning the human race should not be subject to the quirks of personality.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.' -Connor