Quotes About Choice

And you need to know what you're saying no to.

Sorry for not calling, but not sorry for going.

UNC is a choice I didn't even know I had, like a door that magically appeared, a door that could lead anywhere.

It had always been Conrad.

Go to Jeremiah. He's the one who wants you," Conrad said. "I don't. I never did" - It's Not Summer Without You

This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

So what would you have asked for if you won?" He doesn't hesitate even one beat. "Your peanut butter chocolate cake with my name written in Reese's Pieces." I stare at him in surprise. That's what he would have wished for? He could have anything and he wants my cake? I give him a curtsy. "I'm so honored." "Well, it was a really good cake," he says.

After a couple of minutes things aren't looking so familiar, and I realize I should have taken a left instead of a right. I push down the panic that's rising in my chest and I try to backtrack. You can do it, you can do it.

Go to Jeremiah. He's the one who wants you," Conrad said. "I don't. I never did.

After all, why should a woman have to change her name for a man?

John took a long time to decide. He went around the circle, weighing all of our merits. Peter was a fast runner, Trevor was strong, Genevieve was crafty, Chris could handle herself in a fight, and for me he said I would never give up hope of being rescued. So he picked me.

life. It all goes back to that one moment.

I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be someone else's first choice. -Lara Jean

Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age ' which is kind of what I did.

No matter what religion people choose to live by, I came to realize that their choice is ultimately what is best for them. The holy wars are what get us into trouble. If people minded their own business as far as religion is concerned and didn't get caught up in saving other people's souls, they just might be able to sace their own souls and bless those around them with their contagious state of euphoria. Indeed, the world needs more love.

In the first class I ever took with Sylvia, she told us about assortative mating. Meaning like with like—depressive with depressive. The problem with assortative mating, she said, is that it feels perfectly correct when you do it. Like a key fitting into a lock and opening a door. The question being: Is this really the room you want to spend your life in?

It is easy in retrospect to see why he'd want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.

There is a heroic tower of folded things on the table. I spot my favorite shirt, my least depressing underwear. I go into the bedroom and change into them. Now I am a brand-new person.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

Get on with the business of living," Ernest told me. "You don't have any other choice.

Sólo porque recuerdes algo no quiere decir que sea correcto. Es sólo cómo eliges recordarlo.

spesso l'uomo non sa che compie l'estremo cammino; se lo sapesse, non farebbe quel cammino, prenderebbe un'altra strada.

To be new or original, after all, is proof that we are alive and have agency, that we are not enmeshed in an inexorable chain of cause and effect.