Quotes About Choice

Prijateljstvo se ne bira, rekao je, ono biva, ko zna zbog ?ega, kao ljubav.

Choose your career carefully. You build your career and your career builds you.

pro-choice or pro-abortion.

Every war has it's turning points, and every person too.

I have often looked back at that moment and imagined history veering fractionally in one direction or another, imagined if I'd been a different person, or if he had, whether what followed would have been a different story altogether and the history of the world might have changed ever so slightly around us.

You don't always get a chance to choose the kind of news you get.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Or maybe they don't even want babies, some of these women, and life opens out to them in an endless field of work. And once in a while the world responds in a big way, letting them in, giving them a key, a crown. It does happen, it does. But usually it doesn't.

And you should try to do what you want. We should all try to do whatever we want in life. I mean, what is the point otherwise?

I choose to excel, not compete - do you? I choose to make changes, not excuses - do you? To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not used. I choose to live by choice, not by chance - do you?

It was one of those moments in a marriage when you have to make a critical decision with alarming speed and the consequences could last a long time, even forever.

how often do you realize something's a choice when you make it?

We do not stay as we were born, none of us." I poured a glass of wine. "We are all made. And this—what I am—was nothing but one more choice in a sea of choices.

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

I didn't fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I'd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I'd vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.

Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?

He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.

No. It was the best mistake I ever made.

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I'm the only one who does.

Where'd you find her? He picked me out of a catalog.

Desire didn't always mean a choice was easier to make. Sometimes it was harder, because it meant so much more.

It would have been so much easier if he had. If he'd put his foot down and demanded we host my parents' party someplace else. If he'd taken the choice from me, I could've blamed him for making what I wanted come true.

Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it.