Quotes About Choice

Always love or money. And it can't be love, because love makes you crazy, and this guy isn't crazy.

Two choices, as always: fight or flight. We were on 56th Street's southern sidewalk. I could have run straight across the road and tried to get away. But Leonid and his pal were probably faster than me. The law of averages. Most humans are faster than me. The old lady in the summer dress was probably faster than me. Her old gray mutt was probably faster than me.

What don't you need to do? she asked him. ... You don't need to solve all the world's problems, Joe. Only some of them. There are enough to go around. ... You've got the strength of two normal boys, she said. Then came my own personal question. What are you going to do with this strength? she asked me. I didn't answer. I never did. You're going to do the right thing, she said.

Don't let ego get in the way of a good decision." "You just trashed every general in our nation's history.

The whole point of drifting was happy passive acceptance of no alternatives. Having alternatives ruined it.

They had a choice. They could have been upstanding human beings. But they chose not to be. Then they chose to mess with me, which was the final straw, and they got what they got. So I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

this before. I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first. I'm not clear how that works exactly. They started it. They can't expect me to provide a health plan.

They were doped up? Then you were lucky." Reacher shook his head. "You want to fight with me, your best choice would be aspirin.

I don't see how his welfare suddenly becomes my responsibility, just because he chose to attack my welfare first.

Right there. Stan Reacher, nem con. Which was short for the Latin nemine contradicente, which meant no one spoke against, which meant no one else wanted the job.

Pascal's Wager.

But we're not buying camels. So

It's true.' 'Then why did you snatch him?' 'We had to. We don't have any choice.' 'Everyone

She changed herself, by deciding it.

No one says always or never. Everyone says sometimes.

It's always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I'm wrong, or I'm right, either you bring us back, or you don't, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they're not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true.

That's the thing with life; whenever there's a real proper decision to be made, there's never anybody around but you.

I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.

I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good," came his response, "but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that's where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.

if God took his hands off this fallen world so that there were no restraint on human wickedness, we would make hell. Thus if you allow a whole lot of sinners to live somewhere in a confined place where they're not doing damage to anyone but themselves, what do you get but hell? There's a sense in which they're doing it to themselves, and it's what they want because they still don't repent.

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.

Real love—our love of God and our love of each other—must involve a choice. But with the granting of that choice comes the possibility that people would choose instead to hate.

Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?

A perilous beautiful move, choosing to throw yourself at the future, even if it means one day coming down in the sea.