Quotes About Choices

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

I was afraid of all the lost choices I would never be able to make, and that for the rest of my life someone would always be telling me what to do or say or think, even when I had better ideas of my own. I was afraid of never being anything but what suited others and being pushed and prodded until I fit the mold they shoved me into and I forgot who I was and what I wanted.

I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do

There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.

I didn't have the luxury of living only in a single moment. I had to live in a hundred fractured moments that held our futures in the balance.

I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choices we make.

Maybe I finally understood that history wasn't just written on walls and in books but made in a thousand daily decisions, and some of them went wrong, some went right, and some decisions just had to be made because time was running out. Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.

Let her know that life is one long march through closing doors, that she should be sure to choose hers wisely.

you can't keep eating pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar on them for the rest of your life. Thirty years from now, you'll understand why your mom's eating fish, and I'm pretending to enjoy this turkey bacon that tastes like paper.

o futuro era um leque de possibilidades, não apenas uma trilha única e inalterável. Contudo, das trilhas, umas eram bem mais prováveis do que outras, e algumas eram tão prováveis que pareciam quase impossíveis de se evitar. Nesses casos, a palavra usada era destino.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Pero las habrían confinado a la categoría de «indiferentes preferidos»: cosas que puedes tener y cultivar, mientras no afecten a tus virtudes y tu integridad moral.

Refined grains (regular old spaghetti being an example), fatty meats (hard salami), sweets (blueberry pie), and fried foods (bacon) are not poisonous. They are foods that just happen to be less wholesome than some other foods. There

We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations

Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.

You get up. You put on your clothes. And then you put on your personality. Choose wisely.

A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?