Quotes About Choice

He can not hear us, Falon. You and I, we share blood. It is just the two of us in our own little world. I can come to you at my leisure, and Rafael will know nothing of it. Unless you choose to tell him. Then - Lucien shook his head - what do you think my brother will do when he discovers his chosen one came yo me in every sense of the word?

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.

No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.

Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.

Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war.

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

Juliet felt slighted yet relieved. It was curious how you could hold two quite opposing feelings at the same time, an unsettling emotional discord. She felt an odd pang at the sight of him. She had been fond of him. She had been his girl. Reader, I didn't marry him, she thought.

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.