Quotes About Choice

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

Paladin was sure that wasn't just some indenture algorithm weighting his decision matrix; it was his true desire.

No hay una explicación única, y no voy a ofrecer aquí ni una gran teoría ni una solución universal. Pero sí hay un tema de fondo: dadas las condiciones adecuadas, cualquier sociedad puede dar la espalda a la democracia. De hecho, si nos hemos de guiar por la historia, a la larga todas nuestras sociedades lo harán.

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

How does a large slice of fresh bread soaked in beef broth sound?" About as edible as the table leg. "Do I have any choices?" "No." "Sounds wonderful.

Yes, I am," he said softly. "That's the way I was. That's the way I could be again." He shook his head as he raised his hand, his fingertips touching her hair. "I want to be your lover. I chose to be your lover. That makes all the difference. Being in bed with you is like soaring on a sweet wind. I chose to be your lover, Marian . . . just as you chose to be mine.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them.

They will never be human. But it occurred to me that who the Others choose as a template determines if they mimic the best or the worst of what it means to be human.

We are drawn to the Light... others are drawn to the darkness that lives within the human heart... there will always be such hearts. There will always be that choice. If that wasn't true, then a heart that walks in the Light has made no choice at all.

When it comes to being selected for a thankless job, the man who leaves the room just before the vote is the fool who gets the job.

They'll come back or they won't, Simon thought as he read the back copy on a couple of books and set them aside for himself.

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the right thing to do."   "Here

That care included forced lessons, forced cutting, and no chance or choice to experience life.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

The fact is that there are people, good people who, not because they want to but all the same, fall in love with the wrong thing.

He had already prepared himself for martyrdom, and the last thing he desired was to be offered an alternative

I have all my regrets between pouring the wine and reaching for the glass.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

The idea that you could think and choose how to be, instead of simply reacting

The cycle of pain stopped when she chose to pray rather than retaliate.