Quotes About Choice

Absolutely,' I say. 'I do believe in fate, but I also believe that we control our destinies, and I'm not sure which I believe in more. I think that mostly I believe that life is a bit like a tree, and that there are several branches we could take. I think that's where the controlling our own destiny bit comes in. If we choose a certain branch then our life will go one way, and fate will throw things at us from then on.

Gabby thinks of all the times she and her friends have discussed people who have been caught having affairs. None of the them have ever understood it. Just because you're married doesn't mean you'll never been attracted to anyone else, Gabby has always said. But the point is that you have a choice, and you should choose to do the right thing; you shouldn't act on your attraction.

And she had gone off from her husband to live by herself with the priests, had she not? Does a man, seeing a trinket lying before him in the grass, fail to pick it up?

It was always and ever hard to tell with women why they chose one way and not another.

She knows what she wants, though maybe she doesn't know what will work. But if you don't give her what she wants, she'll spend the rest of her life thinking that that was the one thing that might have worked.

There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret—it was a source of pride.

As Mama once told me, "We called him Boy for the first two months of his life, but when his third-month birthday came around and we saw that sweet smile—especially when you were close to him, reaching out for him—we realized that he had chosen life. So we named him Chaim after your zaide, your grandfather, but also because 'chaim' in Hebrew means 'life.'" I cannot imagine what my life would have been like without my twin.

Fairy tales always have a happy ending. He leaned back in his chair. "That depends." "On what?" "On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.

Then I had to decide if I needed to wear shoes that kicked ass or were good for ass kicking, on account of there's a difference you know. ~ Finger Lickin' Fifteen

There were two doors that opened off the hallway. The doors were labeled PUSSY and MOTHERFUCKERS. I'm taking the Motherfuckers door, I said to Ranger. No way. That's my door. Well, I'm sure as hell not taking the Pussy door.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?

Babe," Ranger said, "you need to make some decisions." "I made decisions. I'm just having a hard time sticking to them.

I'll take a donut over a man any day of the week.

Diesel grinned. "You have a choice. You can be the stupid inferior female or the stupid powerful female." "How about if I'm just myself?" Diesel glanced at Ranger. "I'm not going to touch that one." Ranger shook his head. "I'll pass." "Funny," I said. "Very funny.

It was one of those impulse things

If this was the shortcut, she didn't want to see the longcut.

Fruit is not my thing," Kate said. "Watch me eat an In-N-Out burger sometime.

Why did you pick Ladies' Choice?" "It was the obvious one. I'm a lady. And I had to make a choice." "You think you're a lady?" "Fuckin' A," Lula said.

And then I had to decide if I wanted shoes that kicked ass, or were good for ass-kickin', on account of there's a difference.

I figure happiness is a choice that you make.

I'd take the flu over the funeral any day of the week.

The morally correct answer is yes, but the practical answer is no.

You're out of beer." "I had to choose between food and the shoes." "You made the right choice.