#decisive

[savagechickens]

Decisive.

And more leadership.

[dk-thrive]

Where would we be without the decisive ones? I was born to be a champion of the law, he told me. I had a heightened sense of right and wrong, and never avoided any argument that might be on offer...arguing with me was like arguing with a combine harvester, my father told me.

— Jonathan Buckley, One Boat: A Novel (W.W. Norton & Company, November 4, 2025)

[sogoodcontent]

Parthenope (2024) A24

[howifeltabouthim]

Being decisive wasn't giving her much relief.

Susan Minot, from Don't Be a Stranger

[pratchettquotes]

There are times when everything that you can do has been done and there's nothing for it now but to curl up and wait for the thunder to die down.

Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

[vfdinthewild]

"...but also because its defeat ranked among the very few decisive victories for protest action in his lifetime..."

-from Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, ch. 2.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

- Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister 1979-1990