- Nov 07, 2020
Decision Quotes
The weight of a choice, before and after it's made.
This page collects decision quotes spanning military campaigns, a wartime scientific effort that ultimately went nowhere, and the personal calculus behind everyday choices, like skipping a workout for a role. One entry recalls the internal tug-of-war before founding Teach For America. See our Choice for a closer look at that moment of deciding.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
- Nov 07, 2020
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
- Benchmark
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know him very well, but I think Alessandro Del Piero knows himself the best, better than everyone else, so only he can answer the question if he needs to stop or needs to play. It's his own decision.
- Embark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to get everyone that wanted a home into one, regardless of whether or not they could afford it.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020