Timely Decision Making Quotes & Sayings

Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on their shoulders. They had to invent the whole world themselves. They were supposed to have supernatural powers and achieve sainthood. When really they just found themselves peering into the mirror above the bathroom sink, looking to see how they were aging. Sitting in the bathtub, smoking a cigarette, terrified of death like the rest of us. — Heather O'Neill

I always like to meet the people I'm going to photograph. I need to have a conversation. I need to feel a vibe. I need to see what's going on in the person. I'm not just interested in physical beauty. I really need a personality. — Mario Sorrenti

I must have dreamed a thousand dreams about you these past two weeks. — Addison Moore

I've acted just to get to directing. — Mel Ferrer

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled. — Katherine McIntyre

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming. — Brian Mulroney

It is true, monsieur! At a certain age your sight comes back, rejuvenated. — Kermit Lynch

Who are you? What are you? Why are you? — Debasish Mridha

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life. — Leelee Sobieski

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier. — Gary Cole

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The sole of the foot is sacred for the Grass people. It's called the "sole of the foot" because it's the sole (or only) body part that enjoys the constant relationship with the surface of plants. — Timothee De Fombelle

People can't anticipate how much they'll miss the natural world until they are deprived of it. I have read about submarine crewmen who haunt the sonar room, listening to whale songs and colonies of snapping shrimp. Submarine captains dispense 'periscope liberty'- a chance to gaze at clouds and birds and coastlines and remind themselves that the natural world still exists. I once met a man who told me that after landing in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a winter at the South Pole research station, he and his companions spent a couple days just wandering around staring in awe at flowers and trees. At one point, one of them spotted a woman pushing a stroller. 'A baby!' he shouted, and they all rushed across the street to see. The woman turned the stroller and ran. — Mary Roach

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. — Simone De Beauvoir

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. — Joseph Sobran