Quotes About Decision

The more costly a decision in terms of time, money, effort, or inconvenience and the more irrevocable its consequences, the greater the dissonance and the greater the need to reduce it by overemphasizing the good things about the choice made.

The rise of any demagogue never happens overnight, and it's never the result of one election. It occurs because of the slow shift in beliefs and values that follows every self-justifying decision that citizens make. One step at a time.

Han and Luke exchange, 'What next?' looks.

D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

She was always changing her mind, imagining all the roads not taken. She was spongy, and sponges can't make big life decisions.

See, I started to feel old my junior year of college. I was gonna go to Prague and I backed out at the last minute and a lot of my friends, they made me feel old, like I'd missed out on something I could never get back, as if Prague was going out of business. As if that was it, forever, as if you have to be in college to go abroad.

It was my decision to spare you the pain of life.

I have drawn the line, and I am still on this side of it.

Just as I choose a ship when I am about to go on a voyage,' said Jonathan, 'so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from this life.

Nubia closed her eyes and prayed silently. 'Dear Lord, I am not afraid to die. But please help us do the right thing. Amen.

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

This is a universe of infinite possibilities. It really doesn't matter when you begin your journey, only which path you decide to take. If you make the changes, you will become the change in your own life.

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Gabriel: You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? Tamsin: You mean intentionally?

And also...well...i told them I want to get an apartment with him next year rather than live in the dorms." What'd they say?" Over their dead bodies." What did you say?" I asked whether they wanted to be burie or cremated.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

But what happened the next morning, what will happen every morning for the rest of my life, that's up to me. I think people can choose to be victims or they can choose to be empowered and to carry on. That's what I want. To be empowered.

My own words continued to echo in my head: I shall never marry . I felt as though I had somehow crossed a vast ocean, never to return.

But how am I to live in the meantime?' I wailed. 'Tis for you to decide,' he said. 'You can be her enemy and make yourself miserable by it, or you can endure it. If 'twere me, I'd choose endurance.

Perhaps, and this is where my breath catches in my throat, perhaps she let herself fall. The day was hers to choose and perhaps in that treetop moment when she looked down and saw the yard, the world, her life, spread out below her, perhaps she chose to plunge toward it headlong. Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose, instead, a single moment in the air.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.