Quotes About Choice

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

So it will go," Merriman said. "He will have a sweet picture of the Dark to attract him, as men so often do, and beside it he will set all the demands of the Light, which are heavy and always will be.

She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. "You hear me, child. you can't use other folks' bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in our hearts and don't do nothing that would make him ashamed.

I think we love who we love and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it.

But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could chose anyone in this world to love, it'd be you.

I can't resist you," he said quietly. "You know that, don't you? And I'm tired of pretending I can." His expression grew more troubled. "But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could choose anyone in this world to love it'd be you.

I don't want to be a father right now; I sure as hell don't want to be a husband. But you took away my choice, and now you have to make some of that up to me. If you

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.

We have a choice about how we are going to live our day-to-day lives. We can walk in the Spirit or in the flesh. We can choose to forgive . . . or we can hold grudges. We can gossip about people . . . or we can choose to speak only good words about others. We can snap at a store clerk . . . or we can give grace and mercy. We can trust in God with our lives and walk in faith . . . or we can depend on ourselves and the world systems.

It is one thing to renounce willfulness, another to be robbed of willingness.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—' 'No, honey, they don't. Sorry, but they just don't. My fifty per cent of the human race isn't a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We're human beings and we're all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don't all want the same thing

wanted his freedom. But then you could

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

None of us can choose where we shall love...

None of us can chose where we will love.

Every man to the Devil his own way—as

Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.

Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?

We're always at war with good and evil in this world. No one escapes it. It's how we see it, how we recognize it that engages us in battle.

True Love--unconditional love--declares you worthy just because it chooses you. (pg 150)