Quotes About Choice

Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

We imagine we are free agents, but possibly do not realize how steadily Fate moves us along the road we think we have chosen.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. - Lot's Wife

I didn't want this kind of death, The time-frame that I chose was different.

The poet has to die many times, Foolish child: he himself chose this way - He couldn't bear the first outrage, He didn't know at what door he stood, He didn't understand what kind of road Would open up before him...

Verity, you have a choice," he said gently. "We eat, we talk, we pass the evening with an attempt at civility. Or we fuck. It's up to you.

Being alone is a choice. It's how we protect ourselves, and it's how we give up when it feels too hard to keep fighting to belong. But

Il (...) lui a rétorqué que c'était sa vie. C'est vrai. C'est sa vie. Mais c'est nous qui sommes tristes. (L'échappée belle, p.51)

Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete: Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.

Je vais te dire quelque chose, mon ami: c'est plus facile d'être malheureux qu'heureux, et moi, tu m'entends, je n'aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilitê, je n'aime pas les geignards! Sois heureux, merde! Fais ce qu'il faut pour être heureux!

Ich hatte Lust auf eine Zigarette. Es war bescheuert, ich hatte vor Jahren aufgehört zu rauchen.Tja,aber so ist das Leben. Da beweist du eine fabelhafte Willenskraft, um dann eines Wintermorgens zu beschließen, daß du vier Kilometer durch die Kälte laufen willst, um eine Schachtel Zigaretten zu kaufen...

Je suis assez honnête, moi, pour faire la part des choses entre le beau et le vrai et préféré le beau quand il s'impose.

of going back to her humdrum life, was far more frightening than the thought of marrying him.

She simply vanished, I suppose she's entitled to go if she wants to - she's free, white and twenty-one.

He sees her looking at him with interest, and is encouraged to go on. 'I wouldn't be here with you now. This wouldn't be real - something else would. You'd have been another you, instead of the one you are now. You can't be tied down to a predestined fate when you change according to your situation, and your fate must change too. Everything depends on circumstances - on which "you" you happen to be at a given time...

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.