Quotes About Choice

O God! that one might read the book of fate.

We would, and we would not.

I love long life better than figs.

It makes us, or it mars us.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag'd to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

The Steinbeck house was full of books, and as John's sister Beth recalled, "The choice was ours." Some years later Steinbeck reckoned that the books he immersed himself in as a boy were "realer than experience." He didn't remember them as books, but as "something that happened to me.

God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness.

Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.

there is no point in being either for or against "the free market" as such. The key question is: When is a market free?

The first requirement of personality is always freedom—

Memories can be everything if we choose to make them so. But you are right: you mustn't do that. That is for me, and I shall do it.

Choice word and measured phrase, above the reachOf ordinary men.

In truth the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is

Freedom is control in your own life.

Deep breathing at an open window is a wonderful thing unless you live in Los Angeles or down the block from an asbestos plant. Everybody knows that filling your lungs with oxygen is good, but not many people do it. It's like most of the choices you have in life. You know inside what is right. Whether you do it is up to you.

I am the only person who can set me free from what might have been.

You know inside whether it's right. But you still have to choose to do it.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

Why didn't you give me away? I could have been...I could have been him.