Quotes About Choices

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

But when Lou is born, their biological sex is the first thing that anyone sees... The beginning of every choice made about this person, even before they have the power to make choices for themselves. At this moment of birth... Lou Alder is the nexus of all their parents' dreams. But those dreams are different for son and for daughter.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Sometimes our blessings are limited. There is a tangible poverty that surrounds us. We are not offered an obvious tapestry of choices. Still, even when the choices seem bleak between a tiger's teeth or deadly fall -- every moment offers up some third options (the true potentiality within the situation), and it is in our choices (conscious or not) that a future harvest depends.

Work-and-spend has become a mutually reinforcing and powerful syndrome-a seamless web we somehow keep choosing, without even meaning to.

Wer als Kleiner raucht, kriegt als Großer Tuberkulose.

Qué me quedaba por hacer aparte de la música y los libros, sino llevar a las cosas a las amargas consecuencias finales más que previsibles, a menos que hubiera otra cosa, un atajo, una encrucijada en alguna parte, una última salida que me diera lo mío sin hacer pedazos lo de los demás

Later when he thought about it he realized that these very cousins could have gotten him laid if only he'd bothered to hang out with them. But you can't regret the life you didn't lead.)

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more instance in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas and, for whatever reason, made them your own.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Even overeating — like Mom — wasn't that a rebellion that in the end only hurt us?

According to Augustine, the power of sin is such that it takes hold of our will, and as long as we are under its sway we cannot move our will to be rid of it. The most we can accomplish is to struggle between willing and not willing, which does little more than show the powerlessness of our will against itself. The sinner can will nothing but sin. Within that condition, there certainly are good and bad choices; but even the best choices still fall within the category of sin.

I had my pick of three. Never ceases to amaze me, the insane things people will do for money.

Feminism is about women having choices and living the life they choose, not about hating men. Many feminists, like me, love and marry men because we choose to embrace being a woman completely and whole-heartedly. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

Never judge, Kalina's mother always said – treat everyone with compassion. Because only circumstances separated the fortunate from the downtrodden, those who made the right choices and those who chose the wrong path.

Maybe the weight of human choices gets too much beyond a few seconds, the way you can't predict the weather too far in advance because there are too many things going on.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

All the wrong choices he made, they were necessary to get him to the right place, the place he is now.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

What I realized halfway through writing romance is that you start out intuitive, and you make all these choices mostly based on yourself and what you like and what talent you have, and... if you want to have any quality control over your product, you have to stop being intuitive and start being more of an analyst.