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Decision Quotes



"The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open."


"The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions."


"A wrong choice thwarts God's original intention."


"Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay."


"I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one."


"The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica."


"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important."


"I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision."


"My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think."


"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."


"I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications."


"He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's."


"The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges."


"I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do."


"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."


"The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses."


"I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences."


"As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision."


"That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts."


"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."


"Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want."


"One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?"


"Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none."


"At every given moment in your life, you have the option to move backwards with fears and doubts or to keep pushing forward with faith and courage. But don't forget to consider the positive demands of your inner-self while choosing on which direction to take."


"Don't rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!"


"Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill."


""Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988."


"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."


"What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this."


"I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty."


"It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision."
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