Quotes About Choice

Love is a choice, not a matter of destiny. It is a choice renewed each day.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate," I wrote to him. "If they were, then you'd be a victim, but you're not—you're one of the most powerful people on the planet.

Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.

Oh, yes. I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His

Too late, I understood the magnitude of a woman's vulnerability in marriage, how every particle of her happiness depends upon her choosing well. And I had chosen unwisely.

Within a month the ring was gone, pawned to pay a debt, and I realized what I had done. I had shackled myself to a man who could not be trusted, upon whom I could never truly depend. Too late, I understood the magnitude of a woman's vulnerability in marriage, how every particle of her happiness depends upon her choosing well. And I had chosen unwisely.

I didn't go out with him again. Uncut,

By the time she split from the third one, she'd given up entirely on marriage and decided to keep a string of what the kids call fuckbuddies.

St. Frideswide's seat before her intended, she will be master in her own house." "And if a woman does not wish to marry?" I asked archly. He grinned. "Then I believe she does not need St. Frideswide's help in the first place.

I mean to marry him. But not because I want him to give me a life. I want to marry him to share the life I already have. The difference, I think you will find, is a significant one.

It is the best of a bad lot," he admitted. "Would you prefer 'Sodomites'?" "Hardly. That smacks of Evangelicalism, and you know my feelings on forcible religion," I reminded him.

Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the Pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep with a man, guilt if we say no. Guilt if we're lucky enough to survive for no good reason. I'm so damned sick of it. I've never been so tired of anything in my life. I just . . . I just want to go to sleep forever.

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

I don't choose what I do based on how easy it is.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful.