Quotes About Choices

Men have been known to do anything and everything.

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessità, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?

There were no rules, only consequences.

There were not rules, only consequences

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day, making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Reading about Bordertown was the first time I saw people like me in speculative fiction. Messed-up kids, making messsed-up choices. I couldn't be a magician's apprentice or a pig keeper who might or might not be a king's son or a princess with a prophecy hanging over my head. But I could, maybe, somehow, be part of a community of artists who loved magic.

It just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

It was just like Aleksander to steal even this from him, Gavriel thought. To treat the duel as a joke, to treat him as a joke. Now his only choices were to take aim at a man about to fall over or to bear the shame of crying off. And Aleksander would laugh at him later. I wasn't so very drunk, he would say. And if I was, so what? If you weren't such a milksop, then surely you'd have— Gavriel raised his pistol and shot his brother through the heart.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

Our lives are the only real thing we have, our only coin. We get to buy what we want with them

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

The tide will come in and there won't be any more footprints. It's like our lives, right? Whatever we do before this moment in time, we can't do over. We have no choice in life but to keep moving ahead.

Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have, and maybe should have taken.

Everyone had another sort of life up their sleeve that might have made them happy.

This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious enough to dream of a certain type of life, as if you got to choose how things turned out.

Life was all about consequences