Quotes About Choice

instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.

The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)

Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made.

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.

Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

Dawson, like Tuck, was one of those rare people who could love only once, and if anything, separation had only made his feelings grow stronger. Two days ago, that realization had been disconcerting, but she now understood that, for Dawson, there had been no other choice. Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

He believed that most people, when given the choice, would do what was right, even when it was hard, and he believed that good almost always triumphed over evil. He wasn't naive, though. "Trust people," he would tell me, "until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.

I suspect that most people harbor a lingering sense of What if I'd followed my heart?

I can't make this decision for you…this one's yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn't help, but it's all I can do.

You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made. It didn't

I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory.

In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did. (p. 96, Trevor Benson)