George C. Williams Quotes

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

We all have to make choices in life.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

The worst of all worlds is to have some individual deciding who lives and who dies.

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be very hard and you have to wrestle with them, but I'm able to get all the data on the table and figure out what would be the best decision because decisions mean ill for some people and mean positives for others.