Quotes About Choice

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

When you come to a fork in the road take it

I only have one life so I better waste it wisely.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.

Between propriety and joy choose joy.

The choice one makes between partners, between one man and another, stretches beyond romance. It is the choice between values, possibilities, futures, hopes, arguments (shared concepts that fit the world as you experience it), languages (shared words that fit the world as you believe it to be) and lives.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning

The story of Janie's progress through three marriages confronts the reader with the significant idea that the choice one makes between partners, between one man and another (or one woman and another) stretches beyond romance. It is, in the end, the choice between values, possibilities, futures, hopes, arguments (shared concepts that fit the world as you experience it), languages (shared words that fit the world as you believe it to be) and lives.

Beggars cannot be choosers.

And she had not paid a high price. Only love. Just love. And whatever Corinthians might say, love is not such a hard thing to forfeit, not if you've never really felt it. She did not love Archie, but had made up her mind, from that first moment on the steps, to devote herself to him if he would take her away.

A avut ea vreodat? ceva în afar? de prezent? se întreb?, dar a refuzat mereu s? se lase în voia prezentului, a încercat s?-l st?pâneasc?, cu mesajele ei de directoare, cu toate planurile pe care le-a f?cut, È™i acum prezentul îi spune: Eu nu sunt un ecou al amintirilor din trecut, nu sunt o punte spre planuri de viitor, eu sunt tot ce ai, chintesenÈ›a existenÈ›ei tale, ai încredere în mine fiindc? n-ai de ales.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

That which she chooses to reveal is the life of her imagination, as it sought to mold and interpret her environment.

You see de rattlesnake in de woods?' Dey say, 'Yeah.' I say 'If you bother wid him, he bite you. If you know de snake killee you, why you bother wid him?' (Oluale Kossula)

Tea Cake love me in blue, so Ah wears it. Jody ain't never in his life picked out no color for me.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

I could never, ever have an abortion.

I'm against abortion.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.