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Quotes About Choice

that until you know for sure what the outcomes of a decision will be, you can't decide what to do.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Sometimes," she said, wiping her eyes, "sometimes I wish I could stop being Toitovna. I get so tired of it, of everything that I've done." Michel sat beside her. "We're locked in our selves to the end. This is the price one pays for thought. But which would you rather be—convict, or idiot?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The reason is simple: these things happened. They happened countless times, just like this. The oceans are salt with our tears. No one can deny that these things happened. And so there is no choice in the matter. They cannot escape the wheel of birth and death
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Judging by the results so far, it had possibly been a bad idea to suggest a scientific approach to political problems, but on most days Frank was still glad they had tried it. Something had to be done. Although choosing which something remained a problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.
~ Kingsley Amis
God hoeft ons niet te straffen. Hij geeft ons gewoon genoeg tijd van leven om het zelf te doen. pag. 341
~ Kingsolver Barbara
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves. Not always, but at least occasionally, it can break our obsession with the self.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
İnsanl?k sen ne eÅŸeksin! İsteyen seni istediÄŸi yere güder.
~ Knut Hamsun
You have two choices, grasshopper. Out-slut Clotile - or go Springer on her ass. I'm down for the assist in both scenarios.
~ Kresley Cole
My Bride by fate, my wife by choice... - Conrad Wroth
~ Kresley Cole
Is it so bad being directed if you like where you're headed?
~ Kresley Cole
You wanna know what I'm feeling? Lemme tell you, bébé. Amusement. You're acting like we got some kind of choice in this matter. You're just as screwed as I am—because we're both too far gone for the other.
~ Kresley Cole
She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other.
~ Kresley Cole
Don't look at this hand, look at that one.— Finn.
~ Kresley Cole
Why would I draw the short straw?
~ Kresley Cole
I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.
~ Kristen D. Randle
Forget what I said. None of that matters, you know why? Because it's still a choice. Everyone gets hurt. It's what you do with it that matters.' 'Can you change how you feel?' 'No. But you can change how you act.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
She had challenged his whole life plan—to find God's will and do it— said he was fixated on finding the one thing God intended for him, when every moment was an opportunity. What if she was right? Could one choice be God's will, and another as well? It might not be about finding the one right answer as much as knowing the heart of God and choosing from the possibilities.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
So we choose to see miracles
~ Kristin Cast
One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.
~ Kristin Hannah
You can always have the best, Kasie," I say quietly. "A woman like you never has to settle for anything.
~ Kyra Davis
All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one. I shall take the heart, returned the Tin Woodman; for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
~ L Frank Baum