Quotes About Choice

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

don't expect Nicky to provide some kind of happily ever after for you. Because it's not up to him, it's up to you.

She had a distressing sense of life's rushing by before she had a chance to fully make up her mind in which direction she wanted to go.

But at what price? What would she have to block out, just to go from one day to the next? You'll never understand the choice I've had to make. Either way, her life is over. Living like that; or prison. It's the end. Either one will break her.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. —George Eliot

By making the choice to stay you are participating in a crime.

You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the Treasury. I could be sitting with my feet up, embroidering a linen handkerchief with a rambling-rose design. Instead I'm on the rue des Cordeliers in pursuit of a baguette, with a three-inch blade for comfort.

I believe it's fine to give up books even after a page; there's so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?

Each action contains its opposite. Each action contains the shadow-trace of the choice not made, the seeds of infinite variation. Each choice, once made, trips contingencies, alternatives; each choice breeds its own universe.

His councillors caution, 'No haste, Majesty. As soon as you choose, you forfeit advantage. You can marry only once.' 'Can he?' Fitwilliam mutters. 'This is Henry we're talking about.

My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.

como le dijo una vez el rey con tristeza, sólo los hombres y mujeres muy pobres tienen libertad para elegir a quién amar.

Harsh, yes . . . but the question is, have you picked your prince? Because that is what you do, you choose him, and you know what he is. And then, when you have chosen, you say yes to him—yes, that is possible, yes, that can be done. If you don't like Henry, you can go abroad and find another prince, but I tell you—if this were Italy, Katherine would be cold in her tomb.

Is a man a victim, who walks onto a knife? Are you innocent, if you set up the damage for yourself?

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past?Why are we so proud of ourselves for having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.

Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel.

There's always going to be both: -magic & disaster- and we get to decide what to put our focus on.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

I really don't get this whole oranges thing. It's like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?