Quotes About Choices

They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Life, some said, is a railway station where one almost always enters, or gets put into, the wrong carriage.

We're all whores, sooner or later.

Dvije stvari u životu ne možeš birati, Bene.Prva su neprijatelji. Druga, obitelj. Katkada je teško razabrati razliku me?u njima, ali vrijeme pokaže da si, na kraju krajeva, uvijek mogao pro?i i gore. Život je, sine moj, poput prve partije šaha. Kad po?neš shva?ati kako se kre?u figure, ve? si izgubio.

Ambos se preguntaban si habían sido las cartas que les había servido la vida, o si había sido el modo en que las habían jugado.

We're all whores, sooner or later. I mean

sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

I tend to believe that the place into which fate decides to drop us doesn't really say much about us. It certainly does not make us better or worse. At best, it just seems to provide a set of circumstances and a hand of cards with which to engage in the poker game of life. We forge our own identity, our worth or shame, as we go, as we play the cards and try to become a fairly decent version of ourselves. The train is the same for us all; we just get on at different stations.

Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.

Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.

As I was saying. Love is a lot like pork: there's loin steak and there's bologna. Each has its own place and function.

A man didn't make mistakes. He made choices. Bad once stayed with him for a long time, but with a little luck and a lot of hard work, hopefully not forever. With planning and diligence, he could make amends.

The only good things about his eighteenth year were the things he hadn't done: He hadn't murdered anybody or sold drugs.

Caroline B. Cooney

Gaining an awareness of our own limitations opens us to considering choices we would not otherwise have made.

Land. It means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery.

Choices have consequences, Rita. You chose to leave and not look back. Now you have to live with that decision. Like my grandpa used to say, 'Sometimes it's too late to do what you should've been doin' all along.' Anything else you want to talk about?" Graham

Tarts and chocolate cake." Nettie started for the door. Vicky frowned. "What?" "Some folks like tarts. Others like chocolate cake. They'll argue which one is best until the cows come home. Same with religion. Some folks like it served up one way, others like it another, but when it's all said and done, it's just dessert.

We live and we die by the choices we make.

What Wyatt had done or hadn't done was on him. She had a bright future ahead of her—hopefully sharing every minute of it with Mack and her children.

Life is what you make it, girls. The past is all over and done with. What you got is the present, because tomorrow might never get here.

Some folks like tarts. Others like chocolate cake. They'll argue which one is best until the cows come home. Same with religion. Some folks like it served up one way, others like it another, but when it's all said and done, it's just dessert.

No, it an't a good way to live. It's a good way to die, in fact.

Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.