Hard Decision Quotes

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

I don't know how I would react to the casting couch. I'm sure that at that moment, you won't really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

I like fish, and I also like bear's paws. If I cannot have the two together, I will let the fish go, and take the bear's paws. So, I like life, and I also like righteousness. If I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go, and choose righteousness.

It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

I don't want to go on forever and leaving the sport is the hardest decision.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

I prayed all the way up that hill yesterday, he said softly. Not for you to stay; I didna think that would be right. I prayed I'd be strong enough to send ye away. He shook his head, still gazing up the hill, a faraway look in his eyes. I said 'Lord, if I've never had courage in my life before, let me have it now. Let me be brave enough not to fall on my knees and beg her to stay.' He pulled his eyes away from the cottage and smiled briefly at me. Hardest thing I ever did, Sassenach.

Leaving Google was really hard. It's such an incredible place to work and the people there are fantastic.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

It's hard to know who to choose when you admire two people who are so different.

Sometimes you take something because it's an offer and it's big and it's good money and you have to absolutely respect that process, because it's not easier.