Quotes About Choice

When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. I have gravely underestimated you, Darren, he said. I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

We cannot help where we are born or how we are raised, Tel Hesani said. But we can reject the twisted beliefs of those around us if we need to. Our loved ones and elders don't always know what is best. A man should listen to his heart and make his own decisions about what is wrong and what is right.

Arra made me promise, on her deathbed, that I would not let Darren die. I beg you -- do not force me to choose between loyalty to you and my vow to her.

But Steve will die if I do that! I cried. Yes, he agreed. It is your assistance or his life. That's not much of a choice, I grumbled. No, he admitted, it is not. But it is the only one I offer.

It's like trying to hold on to a buttered pole, I grumbled. That's why you must grip harder. But it hurts. I'll cut my hands to shreds if I — Which would you rather? Vanez interrupted. Bloody hands or a stalagmite through your heart? That's a stupid question, I groaned.

Gli eventi chiave del passato non possono essere cambiati, ma le persone coinvolte si. Evanna mi aveva detto che se fosse tornata indietro e avesse ucciso Adolf Hitler, l'universo l'avrebbe rimpiazzato con qualcun'altro. Gli eventi fondamentali della seconda guerra mondiale si sarebbero verificati con le stesse modalità, scatenati però da una figura differente. [...] Quindi non potevo modificare il corso della storia intorno a me, ma potevo togliermi di mezzo.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter when they come, no matter what sort of state we're in.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.

Shall we go to Bethlehem, men? Or shall we DANCE

should explain that a "sommelier" is a wine steward, the dignified person who comes up to you at expensive restaurants, hands you the wine list, and says "Excellent choice, sir," when you point to French writing that, translated, says "Sales Tax Included.

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

She was done, gone. She had been comfortable, and comfort is the death of the soul, which is by nature searching, insistent, unsatisfied. This dissatisfaction drives the soul to leave, to get lost, to be lost, to struggle and adapt. And adaptation is growth, and growth is life. A human's choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

So many people who wanted no part of all this. That's what's new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that's over. Completion is the end. We're closing the circle around everyone—it's a totalitarian nightmare.

I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.

A human's choice is either to see new things, mountains, waterfalls, deadly storms and seas and volcanoes, or to see the same man-made things endlessly reconfigured.

I survived long enough to remember saying yes to life and "no" or at least "slow down" to a slow death.

How is freedom exercised?" ... "Willfully, Irregularly. Through refutation of the custom. The breaking of patterns. Being unseen. Solitude. Social indifference. Fighting ill-wrought power. Irreverence for authority. Moving without limit or schedule through the day and the world. Choosing when to participate and when to withdraw.

One button for the rest of your life online.

Every act of charity has choice at its core.