Quotes About Choice

They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married

We don't always get to choose what we love.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

I understood the weight of promises, and Rafe's strength as a king mattered more to Morrighan now, than it ever had. It mattered to me. I stared out at the jagged line of forest, feeling the stinging irony of Rafe's choice: To help me and the kingdom of Morrighan survive, he had been forced to cut out my heart.

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

Choice I needed it like I needed air. Bit no one could hear me. No one could listen. No words. No sound. No voice. I couldn't even dream myself away. Choices were made. None of them mine. At first I wondered if it was hell. And then I knew it was.

soon the day would cleave in two, forever creating the before and after of my life, and it would happen in one swift act that I could no more alter than the color of my eyes.

I knew why he chose the brown. It was the plainest of my dresses, certainly drab in his eyes, but all the better to contrast and showcase the red he'd have me wear tomorrow. I had no doubt he'd ordered the snow itself as the perfect backdrop, and surely he'd ordered the sun to shine in the morning so as not to deter the crowds.