Quotes About Choices

Uneori, in viata, faci alegeri, iar alteori le face viata pentru tine.

What if the real question is not whether TO be, but HOW to be?

Show me your friends and I will show you your future

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

Evil isn't born, it's made. One thought and action at a time." I paused for effect. "Take a good look at what you've made.

Seeing her like this…whatever anger I still harbored evaporates, leaving only the love I have for her. I suffered because of the choices she made, but so did she. Regret is etched into every line of her skin.

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue. [The Future of the Planet: Life, Growth and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. SFI Community Lecture, August 29, 2017]

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.

There is obviously a level in which humans make their own choices, but as Adam Smith pointed out, all those individual choices lead to a predictable nation.

In the course of the century, so many individual decisions are made that no single one of them is ever critical. Each decision is lost in the torrent of judgments that make up a century.

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.

when you make a sequence of wrong choices, eventually you're left with no choice at all.

Why don't you just leave? Leave and live your life the way you want to. You're free to make your own choices." "No," he said. "Freedom is an illusion. We are bound by restraints on every turn. Family, clan, religion, morals, duties; all those are restraints. For someone on the crossroads of worlds, you're naive." "If you can't have your freedom, then what's the point of all this?" "Give

Look, it can be fast, good, or cheap. You can have any two but never all three." "Why?" "It's the law of the universe.

I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made.

What we really are seems much more like an obscure system of energy out of which choices and visible acts of will emerge at intervals in ways which are often unclear and often dependent on the condition of the system in between moments of choice.

There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.

He can do anything he likes and I'm so lonely, oh so lonely— And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do—

I've somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.

People may be settled into ways of life which preclude continued happiness, but which are satisfactory and far to be preferred to alternatives.