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Quotes About Choice

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
~ Jodi Picoult
Bitter, cold, barren. These are words thrown at women without children. Like we're a Montana winter. Either we're to be pitied or we're to be blamed, depending on how much choice we had in the matter.
~ Jody Gehrman
I believe that there is a reason for everything that happens to us, everything we do, every choice we make. I
~ Jody Offen
The issues that preoccupy bicycle advocates in the West—bike commuting as a planning priority and "lifestyle choice"—have little connection to the reality of the hundreds of millions for whom cycling is simply a necessity, the only viable and affordable means of travel.
~ Jody Rosen
That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What do the dice say?" Dice say nothing. They are dice." Why roll'em, then?" They are dice. What else would I do with them?
~ Joe Abercrombie
People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A choice between killing and dying is no choice at all. You have to be realistic about these things. b
~ Joe Abercrombie
He would have liked to weigh his choices, but for that you need more than one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He'd done the right thing. Maybe. Or maybe there's no such thing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow you.
~ Ann Hood
Don't waste your one beautiful life.
~ Ann Hood
This may sound terribly selfish, but I love the freedom I have. I don't have to worry about a man's wardrobe, or his relatives, or his schedule, or his menu, or his allergies. I would not be married again.
~ Ann Landers
Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
~ Ann Landers
Tanr? bize iki yuvarlak organ verdi: biri oturmak, di?eri dü?ünmek için. Ba?ar?m?z hangisini daha çok kullanaca??m?za ba?l?.
~ Ann Landers
Remember, you can't change anybody else. But you can write your own story differently.
~ Ann Marie Stewart
if you think about one memory for most of a day, is that not your present? Some people live in the now; some people prefer to reside in the past—either choice is valid.
~ Ann Napolitano
It's because you know that more is possible that you'll always see the pointlessness in following a stupid rule or clocking in and out of a boring class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.
~ Ann Napolitano
The past is the same as the present to her, as precious and as close at hand. After all, if you think about one memory for most of a day, is that not your present? Some people live in the now; some people prefer to reside in the past—either choice is valid.
~ Ann Napolitano
I'm not ready for this," she says. "This," Florida says. She thinks: This is the subject that defines women. Having babies. Will you have them? Can you have them? Do you want to have them?
~ Ann Napolitano
class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.
~ Ann Napolitano
Sylvie was being punished for the choice she'd made twenty-five years earlier. Even
~ Ann Napolitano