Quotes About Choice

The strong know that free will is all. What I want, I must take. I

I know that just means you understand. At least, I hope you do." "I do." I understand that you had an impossible choice to make. I understand that I couldn't be that choice. It had to be both of us--Annie and me--safe, and what you wanted didn't matter. Just like when you let go of my hands in the helicopter.

But I didn't put it back on after the Porters. It isn't a crisis of faith. I'm not sure I ever had faith, not the way Mom does. Mine is more like Dad's - I believe there is a God, and I believe in honoring Him, but I'm not sure how much of a role He plays in our lives, and I don't blame Him for that, because it's up to us, isn't it? It's up to us to say we'll be a good person because that's what we believe is right, not because it'll earn us a better place in the next life.

I make the choice because it is one I can live with.

Because sometimes fighting wasn't the strong choice or the smart choice. It was just the stubborn, proud choice.

The greatest gift love ever gave was a choice.

If you look closely enough, every decision has its roots in what a person wants. Scratch the surface, and you'll find a reason behind every action.

Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.

This was her destiny, and it was a fit and proper one. She was not unwilling, but she knew this was a fateful moment, and she had a sense of doors closing behind her and the path of her life being fixed irrevocably.

Just because someone asks you a question, don't you think you have to answer.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws.

But when you grab happiness you may let go of something more valuable --- your integrity. - Hugh Pilaster

Sabe que no es posible hacerlo todo, que hay que elegir las batallas que pueden ganarse.

me inclino siempre del lado de quienes afrontan la tentación cayendo en ella.

Renunciar a la felicidad es como arrojar piedras preciosas al océano. Es mucho peor que cualquier pecado.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.

A l'évidence, cette décision nécessitait une réflexion longue et attentive. Il la prit sur-le-champ. Il rentrerait en Angleterre.

Daisy was in love. She knew, now, that she had never loved anyone before Lloyd. She had never truly loved Boy, though she had been excited by him. She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

Que te quiero y quiero casarme contigo, pero también me gusta Walli, y me gusta acostarme con él, y el amor es libre, ¿o no? Así que ¿por qué vamos a mentirnos?

He knew that saying, and he delivered the punch line: "But all the other ways are worse.

O entonces o nunca.

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.