Quotes About Choice

One day you'll go walking with the devil, my girl, she told me, and you won't come back at all.

Life deals you the cards. but it is up to us how we play them

Should you ever decide, in those small dark hours, to hang yourself, well, that is your choice. But don't hunt for rope until morning. By then, you'll have a much better use for it.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

You had a bet. You couldn't lose a bet. If you had a choice between me and winning, you'll choose winning every time. It's still true.

She says, My job is to show you a door you can open. And she taps the top of her head. It leads wherever you want it to go, she says.

He'd take danger over sorrow every time.

Barbara looked alarmed. "You mean you could have decided to be anybody?" "Not anybody, but the person I became. I think we are who we are because consciously, or unconsciously, we choose ourselves.

I really did "choose" to be Jim every single day, but that once I put my sword down I haven't chosen Jenny at all; I simply wake up and here I am.

Question: Who do you go to first? The boy you love or the boy you love's dog?

All these explanations, and more, had been offered to Arthur. He could choose from among them whichever he liked, like drawing a card from a deck.

sooner or later you have to decide what you believe." It was a thing I'd always known but until recently had forgotten: that faith is a decision. In its most basic form, it is a choice.

More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

If the butter was bitter in the first place, why would Betty buy more? Wasn't the second batch of butter likely to be bitter, too? Why didn't Betty just return the first batch and buy margarine or olive oil? Or, butter yet (oops—better yet!), go to a different store?

Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.

Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't

Where are you going?" I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn't just walk away. "To hell, eventually," Jameson answered. "Probably to the wine cellar, for now.

I don't believe in destiny or fate—I believe in choice. Love wasn't just a choice—it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices. Every day was a choice.

Everything's a game. Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in life is if we play to win.

For all you know, this moment, this second, or the next, or the next, could be your destiny. It's not about having plans. It's about having purpose and being who, not what you want to be.

He was arrogant and awful and had spent the first week of our acquaintance dead set on making my life hell. He was still half in love with Emily Laughlin. But from the first moment I'd seen him, looking away had been nearly impossible. And at the end of the day, he'd chosen me. Over family. Over his mother.

Firecracker Gale and dandelion Peeta are so different from each other that it's easy to imagine that a girl who would choose Gale is a completely different person than one who would choose Peeta. When people sit around debating who Katniss should choose, maybe what they're really debating actually is her identity - and the romance is just a proxy for that big, hard question about the ever-changing, unaware girl on fire.

You don't have to kiss me now. You don't have to love me now, Heiress. But when you're ready...When you're ready, if you're ever ready, if it's going to be me - just flip that disk. Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.

Is this all just a game to you?" "Everything's game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.