Quotes About Choice

we have a choice. To be bitter and angry, or to try and move on. It's the hardest thing for me, letting go of all that righteous anger. I'm still struggling. But that's what I want to do.

But you and I and Phoebe, we have a choice. To be bitter and angry, or to try and move on. It's the hardest thing for me, letting go of all that righteous anger. I'm still struggling. But that's what I want to do.

But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled.

You all think that security and peace are born from destroying everything stronger than you? There is no safety. There is no peace but what you make, every day, every second, with every choice.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.

I really didn't have a choice. It wasn't as if Kotex made a pad for this kind of a thing.

I was standing in a line, balanced between reality and the ever-after. I could go either way. I wasn't his yet. "One day a week," I said, knees wobbling. "I give you Newt's mark, you give me my name," Al said, then wiggled his fingers as if he needed me to take them to finish the deal. I reached for it, and at the last moment, Al's glove melted away, and I found myself gripping his hand.

What is it you want?" My heart pounded at his promise of freedom. I followed his gaze to my hands and the dirt under my nails. "You," I said.

Come here," she prompted. "You want to do this, yes?" Not really. (Newt and Rachel)

It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

He stepped forward, forcing me back. "You're right. I made a decision. It was the wrong one.

Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.

You want something to eat?" Nick said, yanking my attention back. "I, uh, could go across the street for some Graeter's. You like butter-pecan ice cream?

Shit," Ku'Sox said speculatively, and he loosened his grip until my heels dragged on the floor again. "I've heard that several times now. Is that the word of choice? I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

It's the love of right lures men to wrong.

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

The command to be free is a double bind

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that shortcuts a full analysis in order to choose quickly an option that appears to work in the situation immediately at hand. They are often used by humans.

no one else can live your life for you.

This is your life, Frank. What would you do without it?

Kim Stanley Robinson