Quotes About Choice

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!

Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!

That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

It is the calendar that says: "Right now is the time. Who could want another?

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

People don't obey a law just because they're told to. But if they know the consequences of an act and do it anyway, then that's a conscious and informed choice and they have no cause to protest the punishment.

If you go only where you are welcome, that's where other people want you to go, not where you choose to go. You're limited by their vision—not living your own dreams.

Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

We pass more women with swollen bellies hurrying towards the godshouse and Arjuro presses a kiss to Tariq's outstretched fingers. 'She's mocking me, runt of our litter,' Arjuro tells him. 'The Oracle is mocking me for choosing a man to share my bed. And her punishment is that I spend the rest of eternity staring between the legs of women.

he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes." "God help me," he said, half under his breath.

If I asked you to stay, would you?" I ask later as we're standing by his car. "Maybe I would, but I don't think you'd ask me. But I swear to God that I'll be on the first plane back if you ever need saving from anything. . . ." I shake my head again. "You go and shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

But it's the look in his eyes that I can't help responding to, and I think to myself, forget the girlfriend. Just go for it. And I want to. But his girlfriend is there, a smiler, not a grinner.

And if the gods were to give me a choice between living a better life, having not met them, or a wretched life with the slightest chance of crossing their path, then I'd pick the wretched life over and over again.

Sir Topher finally looked up. "Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it." "Then I choose to drown," Finnikin said. "In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me. - Oliver Hazzard-Perry

Trust me, you will get plenty of "advice" from everyone and anyone on the best way to do things, and remember that you don't have to take any of it. Know that whatever you choose, THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU AND SUPPORT YOU THE MOST WON'T MAKE THE DAY ABOUT THEM, they'll make it about you and him, and show up to celebrate your special day regardless of what you decide to do.

I'm saying it because there comes a time when you need to decide if what you want from life is more important than the trappings you'd forfeit for that freedom.