Top 100 Decides Quotes
#1. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
#2. Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.
George Harrison
#3. She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
Jessica Anya Blau
#4. Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
Kollontai Alexandra
#5. It must be a judge - never a politician - who decides whether someone is to be locked up.
Charles Kennedy
#6. I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.
Lemmy Kilmister
#7. When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking.
C. G. Jung
#8. No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Martin Buber
#9. Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort without any guarantee of success. Books do not write themselves and they do not sell themselves. Authors write and promote their books.
Dan Poynter
#10. The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#11. The melancholic breeze of another morning caressing senses tired of a brief life, yet longing for more. But my Lord, who knows the moments next, who sees the path ahead, who decides a life as delicate as a dew drop upon the tip of a grass that sways looking at the beauty of the skies?
Preeth Nambiar
#12. We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.
Maggie O'Farrell
#13. I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
John Barton
#14. It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
Thomas Jefferson
#15. I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
Alice Walker
#16. Look, you can't think of a person like it's one thing, one 'I' that decides everything. The brain is a collective, a huge number of all these thinking modules. It doesn't make a decision, it arrives at one.
Daryl Gregory
#17. Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!
Patricia Ireland
#18. Fate decides until challenged by the fated
Kami Garcia
#19. It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.
Anthony Doerr
#20. When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#21. Danger cups us under its hand, and we can do nothing but stand witness to the turning of the world. Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.
Robin Hobb
#22. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#24. No one decides where I go, least of all myself, though each step is where it must be.
Tomas Transtromer
#25. Your beliefs about your worth, deservingness and ability decides the amount of happiness, success and love in your life.
Maddy Malhotra
#26. Just like we respect your legal system, you [europeans] should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
Adel Al-Jubeir
#27. The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context
Edward Hallett Carr
#28. The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.
Peter Straub
#29. Then it comes. Your lungs suck in air; your body decides for you.
You will live.
You're one breath away from her, then two, then three, then four, then five.
Mom, I am still breathing.
Virginia Bergin
#30. I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.
Sonu Nigam
#31. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Viktor E. Frankl
#32. Actually the choice is simple. When your child decides to love a new person, you can either see it as a chance to hate some people - the person they choose and their families. However, you can also see it as a chance to love some more people. And since when did loving more become a bad thing?
Chetan Bhagat
#33. Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.
Eric Thomas
#34. The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat ... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.
Narendra Modi
#35. The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
Benigno Aquino III
#36. It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.
E.M.Foster
#37. Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
Andie MacDowell
#38. Once you reach the brink of your will power, you have two options - either give up, or keep going. That decision decides whether you'll reach your goal.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. I should tell. I know I should. But he's mine. I don't want him getting the chance to walk away. I want him to pay and I want to be the one who decides how.
Katja Millay
#40. When your blood decides the fate of kings, better to die a lion than a lamb.
Elisabetta L. Faenza
#41. Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#42. Suddenly the anger drains out of me or maybe the sadness just decides to swallow it. It feels like the whole world should be crying. I hope that it is; I hope that if I were to walk outside our front door, I'd see the entire fucking world seizing in pain.
Marley Jacobs
#43. When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.
Maria Alyokhina
#44. Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.
Adolf Hitler
#45. What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
#46. If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and sometimes lovely, but the moment someone decides to release the shutter, it is an editorial statement.
John Filo
#47. No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.
Vince Lombardi
#48. C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she's probably going to end up loving him forever.
Joe Meno
#49. He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.
Nancy Farmer
#50. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.
David Carr
#51. Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.
Louise L. Hay
#53. Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison
#54. Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.
Cheryl Koevoet
#55. If I have a son and he decides to play cricket, I will want him to bat like Sachin Tendulkar.
Brian Lara
#56. A photographer is defined as much by what he or she decides not to photograph as by what is photographed.
Jack Dykinga
#57. Sometimes when the god is vexed or simply bored, she decides that the most beautiful thing is disaster.
Marie Rutkoski
#58. Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Mother in my first short story is dead, nobody knows how but she is dead and the father somehow madness or who knows from what he decides to start and play with the dead body. It's really a difficult moment.
Deyth Banger
#60. Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.
Terry Pratchett
#61. Everyone wants to win on Saturday afternoon when the game is played. It's what you do the other six days that decides the outcome
Lou Holtz
#62. Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.
Jacques Derrida
#63. Some people come into your life at the right time for the most intense reasons and then some leave your life at the perfect time for the most saddest of reasons, time decides who you meet & you decide who stays.
Nikki Rowe
#64. This is so ... I want to think wrong, but somehow it's not. It's right for Christian. It's what he wants - and after the last few days ... after all he's done, I have to man up and take whatever he decides he wants, whatever he thinks he needs.
E.L. James
#65. It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
Wilhelm Reich
#66. On the day that your mentality
Decides to catch up with your biology,
Come 'round
Morrissey
#68. Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
Mitch McConnell
#69. Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
Angela Merkel
#70. What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.
Joel Edgerton
#71. strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit
Meg Wolitzer
#72. A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Horace
#74. She has grown up, another decides, as if responding to the injustice of racism is childish and her previous demonstration of emotion was free-floating and detached from any external actions by others.
Claudia Rankine
#75. The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit ... What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.
Sean Scully
#76. Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.
Anne Enright
#77. This world is full of dangerous beasts - but none quite as ugly and uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of Reason. He will run completely amok - like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling his contraband. Yes
Hunter S. Thompson
#78. God is the one who puts dreams inside you. So you'd better chase them fast, before He decides to let them chase you instead....Because sometimes He does that, just to get your attention.
Amy Matayo
#79. I don't know if she's making the right choice, but it's not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that's what sisters do.
Megan McCafferty
#80. I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.
Neil Jordan
#81. When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it.
Gregory Maguire
#82. There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.
Emma Restall Orr
#83. Dank- "Death can't help what fate decides
Abbi Glines
#84. The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.
Christiane Northrup
#85. Sometimes luck decides to make our decisions for us, no?
Maria Duenas
#86. When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.
Lauren Bacall
#87. I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
John Green
#88. She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.
Neil Gaiman
#89. Things get better everyday you stay alive
then I'm amazed
every day
that the sun decides to rise
every minute, every hour, is another
chance to change
life is beautiful & terrible & strange.
Johnette Napolitano
#90. He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.
Mira Grant
#91. How many people are we going to lose before the universe decides we've had enough?" Carly asked me. I didn't answer, but if I had known what was coming I would have said, "All of them.
Anna Jarzab
#92. Time decides the limits of existence. Nothing can be infinite if it exists in time.
Raheel Farooq
#93. I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.
El-P
#94. FATE decides who you meet in your life, your HEART chooses who you want in your life, but your CHOICES decide who will stay
Karen Gibbs
#95. No matter what happens, we'll always be together, always find a way to locate each other. No matter which guise my soul decides to wear, I will always return to you. Just like I always have returned to you.
Alyson Noel
#96. The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be; ... In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.
H.E. Bates
#97. This is the glory of our religion: that when man decides to rise up from his mistakes, from his sin, from his evil, there is a loving God saying, Come home, I still love you.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. I don't want to live in a country where a government decides if you were raped or not.
Lady Gaga
#100. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
