Quotes About Choice

Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them in the to-read pile. When I finish with whatever book I'm reading, I begin the last book I bought, the one that caught my attention last. Of course, the pile grows and grows until I decide taht I'm not going to buy a single book until I read my stack. Sometimes that works.

am alone. It is a choice I've made, yet it is also a choice made with few other options available. Beiruti society wasn't fond of divorced, childless women in those days. Still, I made my bed—a simple, comfortable, and adequate bed, I might add.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes, and meditate to know if the world's true or lies, may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied shall take a look at the world in broad daylight.

CANNOT choose the best. The best chooses me.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him

The past has been God's gift to you; about the present, you must make your own choice.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.

she had control of her emotions, and no matter what he said or did to her, she chose whether or not she would be happy.

But the alternative to the living salesman was not, in the end, the machine; it was self-service.

No, not you two. Stay here.' 'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.' 'You really want to go first?' 'Of course no. But I'd like the chance to refuse to go first.

Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost 's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

Podría ser que solo cuando ya es demasiado tarde para escapar nos demos cuenta de que siempre hemos sido libres.

Might it be true that half of freedom is the willingness to take it when it's offered?

The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

It may be the case, she said, that it is only when it is too late to escape that we see we were free all along.

I said it was true that the question of whether to leave or remain was one we usually asked ourselves in private, to the extent that it could almost be said to constitute the innermost core of self-determination.

Abraçou o conceito inteiro quase da noite para o dia: podia decidir como queria ser e então sê-lo. Não existia predestinação alguma; agora entendia que aquela noção de si mesmo como uma sina e uma maldição que havia pairado como uma mortalha sobre toda a sua vida podia ficar para trás.

I told her she would always be able to find a white man to be obliterated by, if that was what she decided she wanted.

That's all I've managed as far as freedom is concerned, to get rid of the people and things I don't like. After that, there isn't all that much left!

I said a lot of people spent their lives trying to make things last as a way of avoiding asking themselves whether those things were what they really wanted.

Obviously, I said, she could do what she liked, and I would help her as much as I could. But I'd be wasting my time, she said. Not wasting it, I said. But spending it.