#decide

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life. ↗

— Don Johnson

#decided #going #i #kid #life

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do. ↗

— Mencius

#firmly #free #men #ought #vigorously

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#cut #decided #ended #i #know

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#chanel #decided #holland #i #me

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#decide #foolish #me #philosopher #poet

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#blues #count #decided #direct #discover

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#each #either #europeans #i #less

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #hesitate #i #latter #left

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. ↗

— Joan Jett

#allowed #decided #figured #follow #going