top of page
Exlpore more Decisions quotes

"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."

"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."

"Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment."

"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."

"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."

"Don't think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences."

"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."

"It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions."
Explore more quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

"The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it."

"Everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location."

"It was suicide, wasn't it?''In an involuntary sort of way,' said Vorob'yev. 'These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate.''Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?' murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip.'Exactly, my lord."

"The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real."

"But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall-when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man."

"Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me."
bottom of page