Quotes About Choice

She sees the girl, Iris, sitting with her legs crossed at the table, and it strikes Esme as odd that she herself had been sitting there too, just a moment ago. She sees the chair that had been hers—that is still hers. It is angled away from the table and there is her plate, with the half-eaten potato. Amazing how easy it is to get up and walk away from a table, from a plate of food, how no one stops you, how it wouldn't occur to anyone here that they could stop you.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

El riesgo de una mala decisión es preferible al terror de la indecisión.

Lo malo era que en el mundo real no tenía opción a más vidas. Tienes una y va que chuta. Si la perdía, se acababa el juego.

Sabes cuál es la diferencia entre un adicto y un enfermo?... Que el adicto puede dejar de serlo en cualquier momento y el enfermo no. Es tan sencillo como chasquear los dedos, decir basta. Se acabó.

Rather free than rich

So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.

I don't. If it mattered to me even one bit, I wouldn't be here with you, Nakano-san!

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

A wise man once said there are three ways to find a fool. He is a fool that seeks that which he cannot find; he is a fool that seeks that which being found will do him more harm than good; he is a fool that, having a variety of ways to bring him to his journey's end, takes that which is worst.

Seventh rule of being a private eye: when faced with only two possibilities, both of which are hopeless, it doesn't make a lot of sense to agonise over the decision.

Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand in the door, you're blocking the traffic

It is in my mind that a people faced with death or slavery as their only choices are not readily going to relinquish war. - Longinus Sdapeze

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

We are not given the choice of how and when we must serve, only whether we do so with courage and so perhaps succeed, or with fear, in which case we will certainly fail.

Lucky are those that have no choice but to go on this path, but don't tell me that you are not angry.