Quotes About Choices

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.

Man is a moving being. If he does not move to what is good, he will surely move to that what is not. If this consciousness does not arise here, another consciousness will arise there. Man's mind goes through multifarious changes and never stops.

We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a certain number of given possibilities. What can they reveal to you about what she is really like?

Os futuros não realizados são apenas ramos do passado: ramos secos.

In an existence like mine forecasts could not be made: I never know what could happen to me in the next half hour, I can't imagine a life all made up of minimal alternatives, carefully circumscribed, on which bets can be made: either this or that.

Los futuros no realizados son sólo ramas del pasado: ramas secas.

each door you open is the wrong one, you withdraw in confusion, you seem to be lost in the book with white pages, unable to get out of it.

You got to pay your dues, too. So you be careful how you live and what goes in that Bank of Life. You are going to get it back Ã¢â'¬Â¦ someday. I can sure tell you that!

Whatever the national or world scene and whatever the economy or the tide of war and peace, each of us has to live out our own lives.

It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

Bloody Men Bloody men are like bloody buses— You wait for about a year— And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You're trying to read the destinations, You haven't much time to decide. If you make a mistake, there is no turning back. Jump off, and you'll stand there and gaze While the cars and taxis and lorries go by And the minutes, the hours, the days. Wendy Cope

Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, "Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity." We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

Consider how we use our time. Not everything is worth the portion of our life we give to obtain it. SOme things are better, and others are best.