Quotes About Choice

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

Nine days after Elizabeth first offered the interview, she changed her mind.

She reviewed her options and decided to return to Scotland. Her mind was made up within a month.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

Adam and Eve could not walk away from the seductive serpent who enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit, and they lost Eden. Samson could not walk away from Delilah, who seductively lured him into revealing the secret to the anointing God had given him, and he lost his life. Judas could not walk away from thirty pieces of silver, and he lost his soul. Is the Prince of Darkness tempting you with forbidden fruit to lure you away from your blessing? Be like Abram: walk away today!  

We are not forced to accept the things that grieve us

I cannot remember whether this was my decision or her command. Maintaining such fogginess about free will is, I think, a secret to a lasting marriage.

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

Here in St. Cloud's," Dr. Larch wrote, " I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won't be may

Grown-ups shouldn't finish books they're not enjoying. When you're no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don't have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don't have to finish books you don't like.

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

It's long been a point of mine that the freedom of religion, which this country alleges to support, works two ways. We're not only free to practice the religion of our choice, we should be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

In every life," Dolores had said, "I think there's always a moment when you must decide where you belong.

it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?

You don't choose your nightmares; they choose you.

But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You can choose your characters. But comedy is not a choice; it just comes out that way.

POKUD TI NA N??EM ZÁLEŽÍ, MUSÍÅ  SI TO CHRÁNIT; POKUD MÁÅ  TO Å TÄšSTÍ, ŽE JSI NAÅ EL ZPÅ®SOB ŽIVOTA, KTERÝ TI VYHOVUJE, MUSÍÅ  NAJÍT ODVAHU HO ŽÍT.

Hago lo que quiero - afirmó Garp -. No le pongas otro nombre. Sólo hago lo que me da la gana... y eso es precisamente lo que hizo mi madre toda su vida, o sea lo que quería hacer.

Writers simply have to accept readers who prefer other writers.

Jenny was not surprised to hear that prostitution was legal; she was surprised to learn that it was illegal in so many other places. "Why shouldn't it be legal?" she asked. "Why can't a woman use her body the way she wants to? If someone wants to pay for it, it's just one more crummy deal.

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