Quotes About Choices

She was rich; she had the luxury of having faith. But then, Faten thought, Noura also had the luxury of having no faith; she'd probably found the hijab too constraining and ended up taking it off to show off her designer clothes. That was the thing with money. It gave you choices.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

So much to rue, but to what end? All unlived lives cancel one another out.

For what is living but a chain of impossible choices? Every choice casts a shadow, and sometimes those shadows stalk your dreams.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

do I want to spend my days? How much time do I think I have?" Her expertise

Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love..

Choosing love or war: both are brave choices, in their own ways.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

We are all what our pasts have made us," Catarina said. "The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been.

The point wasn't that you tried to live forever; the point was that you lived, and did everything you could to live well. The point was the choices you made and the people you loved.

I think when we make choices—for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.

Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?" "That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace

I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus we question them. We cannot help it.

But I know your blood doesn't define you. What defines you is the choices you make. If I've learned anything this year, it's that. And I also know that loving someone--even when it's scary, even when there are consequences--is never the wrong thing to do. Loving someone is the opposite of hurting her.

We are all our past have made us. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've been. Forgetting those choices doesn't unmake them.

Love takes your choices away.

Many choices were not easy-they were near impossible, and there was no point hating poeple who were forced to make them.

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

When you choose a man who thinks eight seconds is a long time, perhaps you need two of them. Hmm?

Life is like a maze of doors and then all open on the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard, boy, try as you may...you're going to wind up where you started from.

For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.