American life Quote by Richard Hofstadter

“Alexis de Tocqueville, the French thinker who keenly chronicled early American society, described the consequences of ever-increasing choice more than 170 years ago: In…

— Sheena Iyengar

“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“Making decisions is easy; it's living with the consequences of our decisions that is hard.”

— Anthony Bryan

“Making a decision takes a moment, living a decision takes a life-time.”

— Sherif A. El-Mawardy

“yet never once in his life had he experienced the unshakable certainty that he and he alone had arrived at a decision. He always…

— Haruki Murakami

“At various points in our lives, or on a quest, for reasons that often remain obscure , we are driven to make decisions which…

— Anonymous

“life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.”

— Nelson Mandela

“One thing to remember is that the vast majority of decisions are not lifelong ones. They may seem pressing in the moment, but in…

— Pam Laricchia

“Life could not be lived making decisions at each juncture.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what…

— Steven Redhead

“So I had made a decision which carried with it things that I could not articulate at the time. I had made the choice…

— Robyn Davidson

“We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us”

— John Boyne