Quotes About Choice

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

My dear cousin, can you be satisfied with such a way of spending your probation?

She stood firm, biting her lip. "I asked you a question, Rory. Yes, or no?" He hesitated. "It's not as easy as that." 'It is," said Elle, feeling her heart physically ache. "It has to be. If you won't come to the pub with me, I have to go now, otherwise I'll change my mind, and that would be stupid. Very, very stupid.' She covered her face with her hands, breathing deeply. "As stupid as I've been these past few years... Oh, God, no.

I did my MA on Elizabethan women who demanded to choose their husbands. It really annoys me, that it's basically the same thing today. Who are we going to end up with? [...] It's a race,and everyone else is on the tracks and I'm at the wrong venue, with the wrong shoes on

The challenge in all intimate relationships is to preserve both the "I" and the "we" without losing either when the going gets tough. If we're faced with a choice, we need to choose speech over silence, keep our behavior in line with our stated values and beliefs—and save ourselves first.

My father chose to have relationships at the expense of having a self, a pattern that began long before he met and married Rose.

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You may feel like a coward when your anxiety pushes you to choose silence over speech, or restraint over action. Yet in many circumstances, silence and restraint are the wiser, more courageous choices.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities.

If I have the choice to pray and trust God--or the choice not to pray or trust Him--I'm going to pray and trust. Faith is a choice. And my journey has proved that faith in God is always the right choice.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

The right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

If I had booked a car service, it would have delivered me to Princeton ten minutes before the meeting. Instead, I chose to save $115, and lost a $125,000 opportunity in the process.

Buying things is only sometimes about owning the things. Buying often is simply about what 50 Cent observed: being ABLE to buy. Having less means hearing "No, you cannot have that," and we loathe being told what we can and cannot do.

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

You can't control the natures of other people, but you can control how you'll deal with them. And you can also control the extent and manner in which you'll be involved with them.