Making Tough Choices Quotes & Sayings

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become. — Hilaire Belloc

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. — Joichi Ito

Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good. — Katie McGarry

True pluralism, as Berlin understands it, is much more tough-minded and intellectually bold: it rejects the view that all conflicts of values can be finally resolved by synthesis and that all desirable goals may be reconciled. It recognises that human nature generates values which, though equally sacred, equally ultimate, exclude one another, without there being any possibility of establishing an objective hierarchical relation among them. Moral conduct may therefore involve making agonising choices, without the help of universal criteria, between incompatible but equally desirable values. — Isaiah Berlin

Librarians are amazing like that. They will hand you a book they know will make your eyes bug out because they know that is the point of novels, not to satisfy but to surprise. — Max Barry

They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love — Virginia Woolf

North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who's escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who've had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives. — Barbara Demick

I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point. — Romany Malco

You make me happy...
You make me special...
You make me lovely... — Jennifer Niven

Funerals, I decided, are for the living. - Hazel Grace Lancaster — John Green

Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do. — Tim Brown

A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices. — Rob Manuel

Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He's a prince, and he's only going to break your heart. — Rachel E. Carter

I do prefer to criticise things from a position of ignorance. — Alan Moore

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. — Chris Christie

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere. — Toby Turner

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going. — Bill Maher