I Decide Quotes

#1. I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.

Andrea Bocelli

#2. What I decide to wear literally depends on how I'm feeling that day.

Sarah Hyland

#3. Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.

Hansjorg Wyss

#4. I only hope that I can regain my own identity once I decide that 'Perry Mason' and myself have come to the parting of the road. 'Perry Mason' has become a career for me ... all I know is that I work, eat and sleep 'Perry Mason.'

Raymond Burr

#5. Why didn't I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not.

Sam Harris

#6. Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

Andrew Solomon

#7. Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

Mary Gaitskill

#8. I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.

Lisa Shearin

#9. Of course, the pile grows and grows until I decide that I'm not going to buy a single book until I read my stack. Sometimes that works.

Rabih Alameddine

#10. The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.

Michael Sweeney

#11. All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Only

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#12. I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.

Lisa Renee Jones

#13. As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended, so I decide to be both.

Winter Renshaw

#15. I collect my thoughts, I choose my words,
Whenever I decide to talk to you.

But...

I feel like a dumb, without a tongue,
Whenever I reach in front of you.

I wonder why it happens to me?
even when my feelings are genuine and true.

Saad Salman

#16. After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.

A. J. Jacobs

#17. Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.

Ronald Perelman

#18. For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage.

Kelly Blatz

#19. When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Rae Carson

#20. I cast my hook, my vote against it,
I decide to make peace.
I declare this intention but nothing answers.
And so I put peace in a warm place, towel-covered, to proof,
then into an oven. I wait.
Peace is patient and undemanding, it surpasseth.

Jane Hirshfield

#21. Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid
it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.

Rachel Cohn

#22. Fernando de Ismelda," Enrico says. "You won the kingdom's archery competition. I gather it was quite a surprise to everyone."
"Not to me," the boy says.
I decide that I like Fernando de Ismelda.

Rae Carson

#23. I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

Bharati Mukherjee

#24. If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision.

Roger McGough

#25. I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.

Tom Ford

#26. Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

Kitty Kelley

#27. I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

Deacon Jones

#28. It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Katherine Dunn

#29. When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

Joaquin Phoenix

#30. The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

Patti Smith

#31. I am running the show. Everyone is waiting for me. I decide. I know this now.

Gayle Forman

#32. I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?

Megan Whalen Turner

#33. I am completely serious. When I decide to do something, I decide to really do it.

Steve Lillywhite

#34. But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn't shove me down and break me, because I'm already in too many pieces and I just don't know how much more breaking I can take.

Jessica Sorensen

#35. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.

Will Smith

#36. 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

#37. When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

Natasha Trethewey

#38. The best thing ever done is just to sit on my computer and to watch there television, I decide when to stop and when to start. I decide what to be and what not to be.

Deyth Banger

#39. Get off," she said. "Get off now."
Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of our species.

Loretta Chase

#40. I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

Sylvia Plath

#41. My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself.

Joyce Dingwell

#42. I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Linus Torvalds

#43. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

Maya Angelou

#44. I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.

Jarvis Cocker

#45. I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

Martin Gore

#46. When I decide to do something, I do it.

Terry McAuliffe

#47. I'm very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I'll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I'll do it.

Lee Kuan Yew

#48. Everything. They look good with everything, I decide after a half hour of pinning. Which somehow ended with me pinning knitting patterns. I don't knit, but Pinterest is a bitch that way.

Jana Aston

#49. So I decide to overshoot his estimation of my insanity and show him how little he really understands the psychology of Reds. Today I lead the Pax on a suicide mission into the heart of his fleet.

Pierce Brown

#50. At middle age, I decide to give up on my dream of being an astronaut and follow my second, to be a writer. Also, I heard there was no smoking in the space station.

Michael Kroft

#51. I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

Jonathan Meades

#52. My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.

Rob Dyrdek

#53. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.

Megan Miranda

#54. Suddenly,I want to hold the whole night close to my chest and I decide it is mine alone

Megan Abbott

#55. It's 2010. I'm forty-three years old. I've just turned in the final draft of what will be my third novel when I decide I want a tattoo. Maybe it's a middle-age thing. Or maybe now that my kids are nearly grown and I have a career in place, I'm finally coming into my own.

Therese Fowler

#56. And no one will kill Bill."
I laughed softly as I unbuckled the seat belt. "Blake. His name is Blake."
Daemon pulled the keys out and leaned back, his eyes glimmering with amusement. "He's whatever I decide to call him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#57. I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss my ass. If I want something badly enough, I can have it. If I focus, sacrifice, there is nothing I can't do.

Emma Chase

#58. Why do you still want to find her? The whispers taunt me. Why? Why?
It's a question they ask over and over again. And my answer is always the same. Because I decide when she can leave. Not her.

Marie Lu

#59. The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

Sonya Renee Taylor

#60. Most things that I think about not talking about, ultimately I decide to talk about, and I feel better.

Alison Rosen

#61. When you hit your lowest point, you have two choices: stay down and let the circumstances drown you, or find your footing and kick until you eventually break the surface. I decide to kick.

Amy Matayo

#62. It was my decision, it always has been. I decide my own destiny. I can be guided towards it but in the end the decision is mine alone.

S.E. Fearon

#63. Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other? ... In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love.

Sara Zarr

#64. Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

Apolo Ohno

#65. Miss McCleethy stands to address us. "Thank you, Miss Bradshaw. That was a nice start to our day."
A nice start? It was lovely. Perfect, in fact. Miss McCleethy has no passion at all, I decide. I shall be forced to give her two bad conduct marks in my invisible ledger.

Libba Bray

#66. I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire ... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jeremy Abbott

#67. I decide to put love in everything I do from this day forward. With every fold of laundry, every push of the grocery cart, every stir of a pot, and every word spoken, I will emanate love.

Karen Todd Scarpulla

#68. My God, my higher power, it's mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be.

Will Smith

#69. Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

Jean Pigozzi

#70. I think that I'm very passionate, and I know that if I decide to do a film, my character is going to take over my life.

Noomi Rapace

#71. If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.

Paula Abdul

#72. When i first read the book it was sooo amazing soo i decide to read the whole series but when i got up to no.2 books it got sad i was abite crying at the end but you should read the book it soo amazing

Lemony Snicket

#73. I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#74. I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.

Veronica Roth

#75. If you wish to hurt yourself , you're doing a very good job, but for me that was exquisite. Now, move." He slapped my butt hard, making me cry out of surprise. He laughed, then did it again. "Hurry up and ride me, before I decide I want to fuck your other hole." ~Frano

Marita A. Hansen

#76. If I decide to run for office again, it will be based on what I believe, and it will be based on my record. And that record was one of solving problems completely from a conservative prospective.

Jeb Bush

#77. Money should not dictate how I live my life..
I must take charge and become the master of money, so that I decide what I want to do with my time.

Manoj Arora

#78. I should take his kisses with me and go. But with a seeping, resolute calm, I decide to keep him. I am not losing these Wednesdays, even if I can't have anything else.

Mary Ann Rivers

#79. I decide this day with Chase Gartner
my friend, my maybe-possibility
is the best one yet.

S.R. Grey

#80. There is no pressure on me, I can take a lot of risks in the coming weeks. I feel free to ski the way I decide on race-day because the overall title was not my main target this winter.

Hermann Maier

#81. When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.

Mario Balotelli

#82. You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

Baz Luhrmann

#83. I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.

Ina Garten

#84. Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

Veronica Roth

#85. Just as long as it pays enough to give me the option to go back to work part-time if I decide to pursue my hobby professionally, which is photographing cool manicures for Instagram.

Mindy Kaling

#86. When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn't that bad.

Nina LaCour

#87. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Irving Paul Lazar

#88. I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.

Sara Barnard

#89. I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.'

George W. Bush

#90. And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily
open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.

Eugene H. Peterson

#91. And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears, but it's as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

Alexis Hall

#92. I decide to give them names. The pit bull is Ed. The terrier is Emily. I like giving human names to dogs. It's more respectable that way. It tells them they're one of us and reminds us of the same.

Karina Halle

#93. You're not old enough to have a real boyfriend," he muttered.
I stiffened.
"If I'm old enough to have babies, then I'm damn well old enough to have a boyfriend," I ground out. "And just as soon as I decide on who it's going to be, I'll let you know.

Katherine Allred

#94. If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

Svetlana Kuznetsova

#95. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. It's a change-my-life-forever thing. It's a falling-in-love-and-lust thing. It's a recognizing-my-best-friend thing. And it's the day I decide - this girl is mine. Forever.

J.A. Huss

#96. Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

Celine Dion

#97. So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear - I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.

Hunter S. Thompson

#98. The fear comes back but I don't listen to it. I decide the fear itself is nothing of merit, a few little chemicals in my brain, dripping the wrong way. I walk right over and if I must I will walk right through.

Mat Johnson

#99. I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#100. Still, he's being nice to me, so I decide to be nice to his ass and allow myself to notice how hot it looks in his jeans.

Leisa Rayven