Quotes About Choices

I think if I had joined the Army early, I would not have been able to appear in the drama 'Boys over Flowers' and had such a happy 20s.

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

There was the time when I thought about joining a gang. When you're young and the girls are attracted to the bad boys, the bad boys had all the money. I didn't have much so I wanted to attract that.

A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

Las clases, los primeros novios, todo eso por lo que se abandona momentáneamente el patinaje en la vida, sin saber que se abandona ya para siempre.

After about a year, though, he concluded that the amount of time he was spending practicing the accordion was impinging on his chess studies. "I did fairly well on it for a while," Bobby said, looking back, "but chess had more attraction and the accordion was pushed aside.

Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do for the sake of other people. In the end, you are the choices that you make.

Raw sugar and brown sugar have a better public image but are just as problematic as the white stuff. Cut it out.

Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.

The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing over of empty temptation, our preservation of the quiet spaces, an intentional striving to become the masters of our mastery.

There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".

I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken," I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...you have no reason...not to make them...

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

In life, time can't stand still and it's unrealistic to attempt to create a state where it does. There again, time passes all too quickly and lives are too short to make the wrong decisions and have regrets.

If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

The incarnate angel of Tolkien's mythology, Gandalf the Grey, said it well in a conversation with Frodo. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," laments the young Hobbit. "So do I," Gandalf replies, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.