Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
– JK Rowling
Related Quotes:
- Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results? – Holly Elissa Bruno
- Decision, Decision, Decision!Choices, Choices, Choice.!Decision and choices define life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. – Robert Lane Greene
- Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. – Robert Lane Greene
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least. – Jeffrey Tucker
- She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. – Kristin Hannah
- Decision, Decision, Decision! – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep – Charles Maurice de TalleyrandPrigord
- The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts. – Kiran Dintyala
- What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mary GrandPr
- I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms. – Brenda Perlin
- Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. – Brandon Sanderson
- And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. – Leo Tolstoy
- History is always a grand fantasy… To reconstruct is to invent. – Ea de Queirs
- If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I’m a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. – Sara Sheridan
- Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct – Lamb of God
- True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct. – Richard Rohr
- She had lost him. Lost him because she’d let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision. – Harriet Evans
- Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul. – Edward Abbey
- Don’t make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end. – Jerome D Williams
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world. – Anne Ursu
- His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door. – Lia Davis
- You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. – Michael Cunningham
- The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer. – Sloane Crosley
- But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. – Jon Krakauer
- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I would rather be known as someone who tried and failed, than someone who never tried at all. – Lindsey Rietzsch
- You can’t quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did. – Yrsa DaleyWard
- I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us. – Robert Silverberg
- I tried to understand you… I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself… but I more likely become a victim on myself. – Deyth Banger
- Goldie hadn’t tried all three beds, she thought, but she’d certainly tried all three brothers. – Leigh Savage
- This didn’t sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him. – SA Tawks
- She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she’d ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke. – Dennis Lehane
- He felt his heart was going to explode, his body burned while his mind tried to reconstitute the ashes of who he once had been. – Jorge Silva Rodighiero
- Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. – David Brooks
- The more permanent the outcome of a decision seems, the more thorough and painstaking our decision process should be. – Peter Ojo Opatewa
- Your desire is not up to your decision, your decision is not up to your determination, your determination is not up to your destiny. – oladosu feyikogbon