#decision

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him ↗

— Amos Oz

#uncertainty #life

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#difficult-times #facing-problems #failure #life

Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me. It says: Time will tell. “And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#life #love #time #life

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#democracy #informed-decisions #democracy

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful... ↗

— José N. Harris

#decisions #pain #waiting #waiting

Așa-i de când lumea, că cine se introspectează prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuși, în cele din urmă, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuși, acela nu-i capabil să ia o hotărâre. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#capability #decision #introspection #world #introspection

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#decisions #development #else #made #normal

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#body #day #days #decision #doing

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#again #agreed #anywhere #bad #christy