Quotes About Choices

KiÅŸinin nas?l yaÅŸad??? ve nas?l yaÅŸamas? gerektiÄŸi aras?nda öyle büyük bir uçurum vard?r ki, yap?lmas? gereken uÄŸruna yap?lan? terk eden kiÅŸi, çok geçmeden korunmas?n? deÄŸil, y?k?m?n? öÄŸrenmiÅŸ olur.

How one lives is so far distant from how one ought to live, that he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.' (ch XV)

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

A life, after all, is simply a series of little lives, each of them lived one day at a time, and every single one of those days has choices and consequences. Piece by piece, those decisions help to form the people we become.

And I had no regrets about the way I turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not about the destination.

I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree

Gotta be accountable for the decisions you make in life, and be able to move forward and make the best decisions.

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

Keep in mind that in 1975, when you became a cook, it was because you were between two things: you were between getting out of the military and... going to jail. Anybody could be a cook, just like anybody could mow the lawn.

I paid too much attention to boxing. I wanted to try professional boxing. That's why I didn't focus on wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and it hurt me.

I'm very happy to have been a one-club man, but I wouldn't shoot down guys who have gone off and played in multiple clubs either because, essentially, it is an earning that people are after.

I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to achieve in life, but they had kids instead.

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

It's a myth that you can have it all. You can't, but more importantly, I don't think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!

Your destiny is constantly changing according to your actions.

There are many paths open to us at all times, Jaina. As leaders of those who trust us, we owe it to them to examine every one.

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

The dawn will be upon us in a couple of hours. We need to leave this place. I won't go with you, she insisted stubbornly. If your pride dictates that you must fight me, you may try to do so. His voice, with its Old World cadence and formality, was almost tender. Her eyes deepened to purple. Stop giving me your permission! I am Mikhail and Raven's daughter, a Carpathian like yourself and not without my own powers. I have the right to my own choices! If it pleases you to think so.

Control is an illusion, Steele. I learned that a long time ago. It doesn't matter who appears to have it. We really only can control ourselves. We have choices. You were my choice.