Quotes About Choice

Fresca, or Diet Rite?" I asked. "I'll have a Fanta," she said.

I may have a potty mouth, but I do not get caught in illicit sexual encounters in Marriotts, for fuck's sake. I guess I could be open to a Ritz-Carlton or a Four Seasons, but a Marriott, no fucking way! Yet here I am. And there's nowhere else I'd rather be. What spell has this boy cast on me? I

Because I don't want to," I said. "Not because of the way she is now—I know that's not what she's like. There was no way it was going to be as easy as the notebook. I get that now.

Wearing a hijab is exactly what makes me a feminist. It's freedom of choice. My choice. It's a modesty that expresses humility and respect. It's a reminder of my community. It's a reminder to believe in myself and what I stand for. What's more feminist than that?

I know this is the wrong choice. But it feels like the only choice. So I make it.

But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

Existen infinidad de maneras de forzarte a tomar una decisión. Todo el tiempo hacemos eso: tomar decisiones. Si pensáramos cada vez que tomamos una decisión, nos quedaríamos paralizados. Que palabras deberíamos decir. Hacia donde girar. Que mirar. Que número marcar. Uno tiene que tomar aquellas decisiones que considera importantes y dejar a un lado el resto. Son aquellas ocasiones en las que uno piensa que una de esas opciones podría arruinarlo todo.

Lindsey: Why would you choose me? Rafe: Because you're the one I want.

Nowhere in the known world, it seemed to her, could she live as she'd been created: at once a creature of body and of mind. It was a precept so universal as to seem a law of nature: one aspect of a woman's existence must dominate the other. And a woman like Ester must choose, always, between desires: between fealty to her own self, or to the lives she might bring forth and nurture.

The faded silhouette of Masada offered itself, its mute lines clear testimony for those who knew to read what was written there. A stark choice. Self-immolation or slavery. Freedom or life, but not both.

What was there to stop him from choosing some completely different life, after all? Nothing but the fact that he'd never wanted a different life.

Nowhere in the known world, it seemed to her, could she live as she'd been created: at once a creature of body and of mind. It was a precept so universal as to seem a law of nature: one aspect of a woman's existence must dominate the other. And a woman like Ester must choose, always, between desires: between fealty to her own self, or to the lives she might bring forth and nurture.

If there be any further freedom than the one granted by excommunication, perhaps it is the freedom not to exist.

Belief traps or frees us.

as things turned out her choice had been happy, for seldom had two people loved more than they did; they loved with an ardour undiminished by time; as they ripened, so their love ripened with them.

Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make. And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption.

The world is hat we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike

Everything now depends on mutual trust, Addison Goodheart. Sit down or go. There can be no third choice.

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences.

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on sighs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will...