Quotes About Choices

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The conflict is along the line of turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily, nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral choices.

The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

So we, in thoughtless play, twist the first gleaming and silky threads of the fatal cord which will cling about our necks, fastened beyond hope of release, as long as our lives shall last!

Plata o Plomo.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

En su época podías ser de Chopin o de Frank Sinatra, pero no de ambos; de Manzanero o de los Rolling Stones, de la nueva trova cubana o del rock ácido, pero no podías ser de todos. Los tiempos habían cambiado para mejor.

what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five' 'or what?' I say. 'what, what' she says. I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?' She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.' She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

I went to the Playboy Mansion one time and Smokey Robinson was there. And I was going through a divorce. And he just said, "I love you. You just keep on trying. You're a romantic. Just don't worry about it." I thought, yes, I'm a romantic. That's what it is. I'm not just making bad choices. Okay.

Before was preparation: leaving home, going to college, launching a career, getting married, having a child, realizing that love might be forever but life was not. After was living with the choices I'd made: that man, that child, that profession, that city, that self.

We'd be immortal if we weren't forced to make choices.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

the distentions we make indicates our future so make, good choices

Deliberation is made possible by our evolved reasoning capacities, and this explains why, as historians and political scientists have along observed, free and open deliberation generally leads to choices superior to those of autocratic and technocratic systems.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Coffee or orange juice?" "Water is fine." His eyebrows went up. "Uh-oh," Auriele said, but she was smiling. Darryl was not. "Are you implying that my coffee is not the best in four counties? Or my fresh-squeezed orange juice is less than perfect?

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

There were four cars to choose from, identical except in color. Charles raised an eyebrow at Anna and she trotted around them, pondering. "Gray, white, and silver would all blend in," she told him. "By all means let's take the metallic orange," he agreed somberly.

identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.