Quotes About Choices

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.

no amount of money or logistics is worth a lifetime of settling.

Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Objectivity in healthy relationships encourages each person to be responsible for his own choices and actions and the consequences of them.

You generally need at least a modicrum of stability for people to have the time and resources to innovate and the will to make risky choices.

Part of being a community is being part of the governing body. Taking responsibility for its actions and helping to make choices the benefit all the citizenry. Taking responsibility for its well-being, just as you do when you're part of a family.

Whatever her life was now, Cricket had made her own mistakes in the past-was still making them, if André Deschênes was any indication-and frankly, she'd class some of them as mistakes only because she got caught.

The clades like to point out that their choices were just a more extreme version of being and remaining a productive member of the Synarche-or good.

It's why I want us to be very careful what we commit to while we're dealing with this station. They make bad governmental choices, and by patronizing them, we're just validating their choices.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?

Too many choices, that's the problem. Sometimes you get to a point, you know?" She looked at his face. His eyes seemed distant. "What do you mean?" He shook his head. "You wake up one day and nothing's the same. It's like you're in the wrong life or something. I don't know how to explain it.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

Isn't that odd?' she continued as they wandered back from the front towards the shops again, 'When you see people in the shops choosing their clothes and shoes and stuff, they take ages - as though each thing they choose will be amazing and perfect. And then, look at them. They mostly look simply terrible - or just ordinary They might just as well have chosen their clothes out of a bran tub.

I wasn't aware that not disappointing you was an option, so I'm afraid I haven't taken any steps to avoid it.

If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it." Caroline to Peggy

Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.

Under the idea that we can all make our fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don't. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.

Domitian is an important figure in Hadrian's life primarily because the choices and assumptions Hadrian was to make about how to be an emperor were undoubtedly influenced by the experience of living within the tensions of Domitian's reign.

This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.

And it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect: This was true for Jim and Helen, and for Margaret and himself, as well.

it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect: This was true for Jim and Helen, and for Margaret and himself, as well.