Quotes About Choice

Direction—not intention—determines our destination.

Pay the price. Embrace the vision. After all, everybody ends up somewhere in life. You have the opportunity to end up somewhere on purpose.

After all, it takes a lot of planning to marry the wrong person.

Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.

I always end up where the road I've chosen takes me.

Actually, there was nothing sudden about his undoing. His fall was inevitable. The end of this story was determined years ago when he chose a path that, from the very beginning, had dishonor, disgrace, and dismissal as the destination. Direction determines destination. Every time.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Después de haber comido entrambos doce nécoras, alguien dijo a Pilatos: -¿Y qué hacemos ahora? Él vaciló un instante y respondía (educado, distante, indiferente): -Chico, tú haz lo que quieras: Yo me lavo las manos.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.

he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.

or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

Now that," said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, "is just rubbish. There isn't any good or bad taste about what books you read: it's what you like or don't like.

Do you know what I think, mother?" said Edith, who was in her usual tidy way plumping up the cushions and generally putting things straight. "No, darling," said her mother. "What is it?" "Well, it's rather difficult to explain," said Edith. "It's about George and John-Arthur. I'd like to marry them both.

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.