„We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.“

„If there must be decision by a close majority, then let the people step in and let it be their majority that decides.“

—  Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

„Sometimes people leave you
Halfway through the wood
Others may decieve you
You decide what's good
You decide alone
But no one is alone“

—  Stephen Sondheim American composer and lyricist 1930

Zdroj: Into the Woods

„People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.“

—  Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980

„We see the wisest, most intelligent people take steps in life, that we must shake our head over.“

—  Adolph Freiherr Knigge, kniha Über den Umgang mit Menschen

Wir sehen die klügsten, verständigsten Menschen im Leben Schritte tun, über die wir den Kopf schütteln müssen.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

„And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!“

—  Ruth Ozeki, kniha A Tale for the Time Being

Zdroj: A Tale for the Time Being

„Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.“

—  Max Brooks, kniha World War Z

Zdroj: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

„Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.“

—  Markus Zusak Australian author 1975

Zdroj: I Am the Messenger

„Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Battle of the Labyrinth

Zdroj: The Battle of the Labyrinth

„I'm not a political singer. I don't know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us.“

—  Miriam Makeba South African singer and civil rights activist 1932 - 2008

As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)

„Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.“

—  Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881

This comes from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, part 1, chapter 1.
Misattributed

„Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.“

—  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, kniha Zločin a trest

Crime and Punishment (1866)

„…feeling her helplessness. There was nothing worse. Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn't completely true. Yeah, you could decide what to have for breakfast and what to wear and all those little things, but as soon as you stepped out into the world, you were pretty much at the mercy of everyone else around you, and all you could do was hope that if they were having a bad day, they wouldn't decide to take it out on you.“

—  Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965

Jennifer Romanello, Chapter 30, p. 323
2000s, The Guardian (2003)

„People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere. We’re not going to sit around and wait and just be happy if something turns up. We are ambitious. You have to be.“

—  Thom Yorke English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

(in his first-ever interview, 1991) source http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=1991&cutting=10

„When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.“

—  Helen Rowland American journalist 1875 - 1950

Divorces
A Guide to Men (1922)

„So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca“

—  Lee Iacocca American businessman 1924 - 2019

„In America, we vote, we decide as a group of people what our policies are, and that's the way we do business. We don't let violence make those determinations for us.“

—  Charles Moose Amerocan police officer and writer 1953

Town hall meeting http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AttacksU (8 October 2001)

„We have a law that everybody has been kicking us for – a law prohibiting homosexual propaganda among minors. But listen, let a person grow up, become an adult and then to decide who he or she is. Leave children in peace. There are so many inventions nowadays…they invented five or six genders, transformers, trans… I do not even understand what it is.“

—  Vladimir Putin President of Russia, former Prime Minister 1952

2019

„It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.“

—  Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Zdroj: Change of Heart

„I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be.
I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.“

—  Markus Zusak Australian author 1975

Zdroj: Underdog