Quotes About Choice

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.

God isn't about making good things happen to you,or bad things happen to you. He's all about making choice - exercising the gift of free will.

I was casting everything I had done, everything I believed, everything I had chosen—everything I was—against the will of an ancient being of darkness, terror, and malice, a fundamental power of the world. And the bonds and the will of Mother Winter could not constrain me.

Your death doesn't belong to me. We flipped a coin. I lost.

dredged up a quote from someone I rarely agreed with about anything. "What's the point of free will, if not to spit in the eye of destiny?

I had bitten into my tongue, and I either had to spit or swallow. I swallowed. No comments, please.

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

It only means what you decide it means.

That's the difficult part of being mortal. Of having choice. Much is hidden from you.

He didn't mention the other part of the book. That following the heroes when they set out was the tenth member of their party. A broken creature who went through all the same dangers and trials, who had made a single bad choice and taken up a power he didn't understand - and who had become a demented, miserable, living nightmare because of it. In the end, he had been just as necessary to the overthrow of the darkness. But he sure as hell didn't enjoy his part.

Do not read what you don't like

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

There's always a choice," I said. "That's the thing, man. There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Monsters don't care," Michael said. "The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.

You need to know where to go," Sanya said. "Yes." "And you are going to consult four large pizzas for guidance." "Yes," I said. The

Granted, I think it would have been more fun to be Colossus than Shadowcat.

They get caught up in right and wrong. Or right and left. But none of that stuff matters if people aren't free." Titania

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.

I should far rather be drunk than eaten, Miss Lancaster," Ferus said in a serious tone. "As should we all. Very well, that's settled.

What's the point of free will, if not to spit in the eye of destiny?

I thought God gave everyone free will," I said. "Which presumably—and evidently—includes the freedom to be incorrect when translating one language into another.

I shuddered and shoved the feeling away. No matter how strong the vision, how powerful the image gained with the Sight, the future was always mutable, always something that could be changed. No one had to die tonight. It didn't have to come to that, not for them and not for me.

life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right—but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become.

Her chin lifted, and her hard, cold eyes flickered in naked, unconcealed pride. "Never once in your life, my Knight, have you taken the easy road. I chose well.