Quotes About Choice

the true cost of anything is what we give up in order to have it. It is the path not taken. To take the responsibility of making the choice is crucial and not always easy.

The price we pay is the path not taken, that which we give up.

el verdadero coste de cualquier cosa es aquello a lo que renunciamos para obtenerla. Es el camino no tomado.

To be a choicemaker in the third phase means that what you choose to do or be must correspond with what is true for you at a soul level.

Can we go now, or should we load up Banjo and one of the cows?" he said. "Or the hen that lays double-yolked eggs?

I am not at all the sort of girl he would normally go out with. But maybe now there is not so much choice—well, anyway. We shall see.

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

When a couple of adopting parents are choosing a daughter, I stand by with my heart in my mouth, feeling as though I were assisting in the inscrutable designs of Fate. Such a little thing turns the balance! The child smiles, and a loving home is hers for life; she sneezes, and it passes her by forever.

What seems to you the right thing for me to do? Judy

Anyway, that's the way I feel—and I've refused to marry him. I

Les événements disposent de nous pour presque tout. Les rares fois où il nous revient de décider librement, nous n'avons pas le droit de vouloir autre chose que le bonheur.

La liberté, pensait-elle, c'est le choix de ce qui va vous asservir.

What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?

Lesser of two evils.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

and Boyer has to be on the Jack Nicholson end of the old routine in which he tries to order a slice of cheese that comes only with the apple pie. (Why did no one mention that Five Easy Pieces [1970], with its "hold the chicken salad, just give me the toast" routine, was recycling old-movie dialogue that had appeared in many films?)

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice. The fears of her past and the horrors of her present are so mixed up they feel like the unmatching pieces of a rompecabezas, like she's trying to piece together things that were never meant to fit.

none of them had chosen to marry Sebastián, or to take on the risks of his profession as their own. Only she had done that, and now her family had paid for her choice.

If we get married, you choose me. I hope you'll continue to choose me every day.

Esti o persoana, un adult, ii zisese inainte sa se logodeasca. Si eu sunt iubitul tau. Daca ne casatorim, asta inseamna ca ma alegi pe mine. Si sper sa continui sa ma alegi in fiecare zi.

you could choose a different path,

Somebody told me, before we got on the train," he says, "if you fall, if you see your arm or your leg getting sucked under there, you have a split second to decide whether or not to put your head in there too." The young man blinks into the camera. "I made the wrong choice," he says.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself.