Quotes About Choice

I am coming to see that it is not so much a question of finding the right place, the right time, the ideal marriage. Neither life nor happiness hinges upon such things. It is wholly within. It is response to what is given. It is choice.

Love without freewill is semantics holding no intrinsic value.

As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly embrace the latter.

In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

Parents must be sensitive to their role in the child's moral development. One day he is going to choose without you. Will he make the right choice? No amount of training is going to override the certainty of sin developing in the child's life, but the training parents give can lessen the child's addiction to the flesh and make it easier for repentance to follow his sinful indulgence.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

His decision to go west was not rash or forced, but as fully deliberate as any choice in his life. At the same time, he could not explain or articulate his reasons. It was something that he felt more than understood.

Take away the idea of dark times and ruin and you begin to hear other voices. Women were not always silent, or without the power to make choices – we may just have been listening in the wrong places;

the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

I do my own habitual scan. I've already completed mental check-offs of the drunks, the painfully pierced, and there have been two iced coffees and a couple sharing a starfruit. Miriam is back in her spot. I go over and ask her, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, would you?

The waitress suggests the special, a vegetarian lasagne. Ruiz tells her he didn't fight his way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

but we often meet our fate on the road we take to avoid it.

I have a few regrets. There was a girl I should have married, a war in which I should never have fought, a loaf of bread I should have shared, a lie to which I should never have listened. And there is a story I should have told.

You're right. The twins are the key to the future—but whose: the Dark Elders' or humankind's?

This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer?" A rejoinder is, "What if a young woman who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer dies in childbirth?

George Bernard Shaw once said, "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Here's a truck stop instead of St. Peter's.

Either live in reality or get left behind in imagination

The fundamental concept here is that if antibiotics are a societal trust—if my use affects your ability to use them, and then your use affects my grandkids' ability to use them—why are we allowing people to choose? We recognize in society that individual autonomy extends only up to the point that you begin to affect others.

I didn't ask to be saved

They don't like it when you end things the way you want to and don't wait for the way it's "supposed" to happen. What if suicide is the way it's supposed to happen? Do they ever think of that?

you either are or aren't