Quotes About Choice

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

What happened the day I met your father,' she said, 'is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.

We always have a choice. That's what Grady said too. What does that even mean? That there is a right thing to do and there is a wrong thing to do. Simple. Judgmental. And if you are the person someone is asking that question about, you have chosen wrong—as if the world is divided between the people who have never made a big mistake. And the people who have.

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

Gotta pick a piece of wood," I said. "It all starts with picking a good piece of wood. If that's no good, you have nowhere good to go." "How

Not that I'm saying that I didn't have a choice in working for them. I believe you always have a choice. And the choice I made was to defend people who, by law, deserve a proper defense. There's honor in that. I never lied to my family about

I'm not sure we get to, Annie," he said. "I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

I think it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

I'm not sure we get to, Annie,' he said 'I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

either way we cut it, we shouldn't

think it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.

Lo que me dijiste no cambió mi manera de pensar y te repito que me encantaría ser el compañero de toda tu vida, pero quiero que pienses muy bien si ese hombre soy yo o no. Si tu respuesta es afirmativa, celebraremos la boda dentro de unos días. Si no, yo seré el primero en felicitar a Pedro y pedirle que te dé el lugar que te mereces

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

Claro que lo sabía. Y claro que lo iba a considerar cuando tomara su decisión, la definitiva, la que determinaría todo su futuro

Porque no quiero». Tita con estas tres palabras había dado el primer paso hacia la libertad. Mientras

Que baile, que ría, que nada le impida galopar hasta la locura, que los ladridos de los perros no detengan su andar, que nunca tenga que elegir entre amar o vivir.

One room, two beds, babe. That's the best I can do.

Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.' 'He does,' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation.

You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drink it up. You do as you want, it's your money.

A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad.