Quotes About Choice

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

you're going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

Owen is Owen. No one gets to tell him how to live his life. Not you, not me, and not some author nobody. Owen gets to choose how his life story goes, and no one, let alone his idiot fictional self, gets to take that away from him.

He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.

Think we choose our lives? No. But I don't think they're thrust upon us, either. What it feels like to me is, they're forever seeping up under our feet.

When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.

My preferred method is to be able to suggest a concept and get two preliminary sketches or renderings. Then choose one and have two rounds of modifications and a final polish.

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.

I would rather live my life than not live it.

This book is about whether schools and communities choose to squelch or nurture the flame of intelligence in their young people, and what happens when they choose to deny or embrace this national resource.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

we all have own choice in life, I choose to be positive like a sunshine.

For to be Happy in Life, choose Self the Colors of Life.

I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to hurry them on. Near or far, the end is always in sight. We have no time to stand and stare. Make your choice, Fernanda.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.