Quotes About Choice

There's some things you dont decide. Decidin had nothin to do with it.

A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty surprise ready to punish you for every false step.

Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth.

That was what made fighting so easy - you could always choose death rather than captivity.

Courage was something John Reckless only ever wished he had. Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned. You had to take the difficult paths, and John had always picked the easy ones.

In our choices lie our fate.

I think she'd sell her soul to the devil without thinking if he offered her the right book for it.

That was the trouble with writing, there were such an infinite number of turns the story could take. How were you to know which one was right?

Em nossas escolhas encontra-se o nosso destino.

Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?

They say that it's down to individual choice and responsibility, but reality is that you can't personally shop your way out of climate change. If your town reuses glass bottles, that does one thing. If it recycles them, it does something else. If it landfills them, that's something else, too. Nothing you do, personally, will affect that, unless it's you, personally, getting together with a lot of other people and making a difference.

Without exception. It's easy to feel hopeless in the face of the difficult issues that we face every day—how could one person effectively resist anything so much larger than herself? Once we stop acting alone, we have a chance for positive change. To protest is to stop and say that you object, to resist is to stop others from going along without thinking and to build alternatives is to give everyone new choices.

The anthropocene is about collective action, not individuals. That's why climate change is such a clusterfuck. In default, they say that it's down to the individual choice and responsibility, but reality is that you can't personally shop your way out of climate change.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

You do not have to accept he hand that fate has dealt you

Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?

Who chooses what we know or what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself.

The margin between staying and leaving was so thin; really, it could have gone either way.

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.

She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.

we create our own reality—that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.