Quotes About Choices

This is the funny thing about New York - there are so many things to do at all times of the day, but there are still moments when you have no idea which of them to do, and feel extra silly because you know there has to be something out there for you to do; your mind just hasn't found it yet.

Much as I detest the man, I'll never know the full circumstances behind his choices. Life is muddy. Denying that—thinking there's only one noble path above the fray—can be a poisonous approach to life.

But it seemed to him nonetheless that the god these people had just prayed to was the present: a world in which they felt compelled to act, stepping into the history flowing right in front of their feet; making choices in the knowledge that they might fail.

there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.

I could only lose her if, from this moment forward, I made wrong choices, or if she made them. But I would take those odds rather than the odds that luck offered.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.

Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices.

Las decisiones que cada uno de nosotros tomamos y las acciones que acompañan a dichas decisiones son como vibraciones en la cuerda de una guitarra

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I tend to do that. Any life isn't just one story; it's thousands of them. So when I try to tell one of my own, I sometimes go down an alleyway when I should take the main street, or if the story is fourteen blocks long, I sometimes start on block four and have to backtrack to make sense.

truth, there were no tracks of destiny through the chaos of life, only paths forged by decisions.

We are where we are because of repeated unconscious or unhealthy choices that we've made day after day after day that add up to the reality we find ourselves in.

Our actions are reactions, our choices based on the way we feel in the moment, with no consideration for their impact on our future.

Of all the men you've dated over the years, Rowan's the best. And better yet, he loves you. A lot. If you let him go, you'll be sorry.

you should explore all your options

But at twenty-eight, Justine had revealed no desire to marry.

Consider your life your personal currency-and invest it wisely.

You do not want to be a noble person? She held her thumb and index finger close together. A little bit? He shook his head. I've gt nothing against noble people, I've just noticed they rarely live past forty. Neither do gangsters. True, he said, but we eat in better restaurants. (Live By Night - Dennis Lehane)

I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

Sin would have fewer takers if the consequences occurred immediately.

There aren't any answers, only choices

There were some chains you wore because you wanted to.

There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

No hay respuestas, sino elecciones.