Quotes About Life And Death Decisions

#1. Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Leon Panetta

#3. Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well ... they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.

Jasper Fforde

#4. And if he had to do it all over, he would do it again. In the deepest privacy of his soul, down at the bottom of a well where no one else could hear him, the part of him that had weighed life and death decisions over the last several hundred years took her life and weighed it against all else.

Thea Harrison

#5. Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Denis Waitley

#6. Life behind him by this time (he died in 1988), so he could reflect on his experiences and accomplishments with the

Richard Feynman

#7. The early settlers amazed her
they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.

Jennifer Vanderbes

#8. In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Damien Hirst

#9. The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

Hugh Sidey

#10. Even stranger, though, was how, at this very moment, this car with its echoes of death and decisions and life courses forever altered was the one place where Emerson had never felt so vividly alive.

Stephanie Kuehn

#11. Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

Benjamin R. Smith

#12. The Scorpion?
The Grasshopper?
Which way will she go?

E.A. Bucchianeri

#13. I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

Hugo Chavez

#14. Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

James Patterson

#15. Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

Eric Clapton

#16. When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Kenneth Eade

#17. The measure of a man lies not in his lengthy accomplishments, but in his decisions when he is faced with the certain, indisputable knowledge that he is going to die.

Mitch Rowland

#18. Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Jonathan Sacks

#19. I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

A.C. Grayling

#20. I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Michael Douglas

#21. Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

Peter Hoeg

#22. People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Bella Pollen

#23. Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza.

Conan O'Brien

#24. Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change them.

Karyn Bosnak

#25. Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.

Malcolm Gladwell

#26. The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Brian Tracy

#27. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

Slade Combs

#28. Life changes and molds you with every breath. Death has a way of forcing you to re-evaluate decisions, and fate has a way of shoving your face into everything you've lost.

Stevie J. Cole

#29. For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

Robert Henryson

#30. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Phil Klay

#31. I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

Ving Rhames

#32. For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

#33. The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.

Pete Hegseth