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Quotes About Choice

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
~ George R.R. Martin
Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ygritte was much in his thoughts as well. He remembered the smell of her hair, the warmth of her body... and the look on her face as she slit the old man's throat. You were wrong to love her, a voice whispered. You were wrong to leave her, a different voice insisted.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Gerold Hightower had begun his history, and Ser Barristan Selmy had continued it, but the rest Jaime Lannister would need to write for himself. He could write whatever he chose, henceforth. Whatever he chose ...
~ George R.R. Martin
We do not choose our destinies.
~ George R.R. Martin
I would choose freedom over comfort every time.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is a long league's worth of difference between willful and stupid. - Tywin Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
Choosing … it has always hurt. And always will.
~ George R.R. Martin
He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him
~ George R.R. Martin
The man who does nothing also takes a risk.
~ George R.R. Martin
You heard me. Go away. But... where should I go? To hell or home, as you prefer.
~ George R.R. Martin
We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.
~ George R.R. Martin
Seven, Brienne thought again, despairing. She had no chance against seven, she knew. No chance, and no choice. She stepped out into the rain, Oathkeeper in hand.
~ George R.R. Martin
A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.
~ George R.R. Martin
Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los grilletes y la muerte, pero la elección estaba siempre allí.
~ George R.R. Martin
If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes," the king said. "I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone .
~ George R.R. Martin
If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?
~ George R.R. Martin
We all must choose," she proclaimed. "Man or woman, young or old, lord or peasant, our choices are the same." Her voice made Jon Snow think of anise and nutmeg and cloves. She stood at the king's side on a wooden scaffold raised above the pit. "We choose light or we choose darkness. We choose good or we choose evil. We choose the true god or the false.
~ George R.R. Martin
A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.
~ George R.R. Martin
If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.
~ George R.R. Martin
It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it,
~ George R.R. Martin
Can our morrows be foretold? Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed. See that you close mine as you leave.
~ George R.R. Martin
Small wonder he refused to marry. Why buy a cow when there were udders all around begging to be milked?
~ George R.R. Martin
If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter who bites you first?
~ George R.R. Martin