Quotes by Authors - Page 193

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee
To lose Is to learn.
Anonymous
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
Anonymous
The last if not the greatest of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
Bruno Bettelheim
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjöld
No question is ever settled until it is settled right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Herbert B. Prochnow
In not making the decision you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
Ivan Bloch
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
Gordon Graham
Not to decide is to decide.
Harvey Cox
A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.
John Foster
Where bad's the best bad must be the choice.
Anonymous
Of two evils choose the prettier.
Carolyn Wells
Of two evils choose the less.
Anonymous
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
You cannot have it both ways.
Anonymous
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action choose the bolder.
W. J. Slim
A door must either be shut or open.
Anonymous
There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.
Anonymous
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Brontë
You cannot have your cake and eat it.
Anonymous
Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
Sir Richard Livingstone
The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
Alternatives and particularly desirable alternatives grow only on imaginary trees.
Saul Bellow
There comes a time when you've got to say "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca
The moment a question comes to your mind see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.
H. Van Anderson
We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.
L'Estrange
The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.
Anatole France
A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.
Herbert J. Steifel
It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions.
Marcel Proust
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people you would be perfectly comfortable.
Bobby Bragan
The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
Samuel Butler
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Sydney J. Harris
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Brontë
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no data on the future.
Laurel Cutler
The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
Doug Rader
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
George Eliot
You must not change one thing one pebble one grain of sand until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.
George Eliot
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?
Margaret Culkin Banning
History is a stern judge.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.
Bill W.
What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.
Pauline Rose Chance
People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor both to yourself and to your country let men label you as they may.
Mark Twain
When one bases his life on principle 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
Anonymous
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
Christopher Morley
Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
George Eliot