Quotes About Choice

Misjudgment is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

He was developing a sneaking feeling he had found his way onto the wrong side. Again. But it's not always easy to tell when you're picking. Perhaps, as Kahdia once told him, you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

Either you are a part of my future, or a relic of the past.

you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

Life – the way it really is – is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse' Joseph

Because the vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

Taking vengeance... it might not answer no questions. It sure won't make the world a fairer place or the sun shine warmer. But it's better'n not taking it. It's a damn stretch better.

It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

Ah yes! I had the chance to leave all this behind. Yet I chose to come back. Change is not a simple thing, eh, Sergeant? I entirely see and understand the pointlessness and waste of it all, yet I do it anyways. Does that make me worse or better than the man who does it thinking himself ennobled by a righteous cause? Or the man who does it for his own profit, without the slightest grain of thought for right or wrong? Or are we all the same?

I know you like to think you're jolting about helpless in a runaway cart, carried off to who-knows-where with no say in the matter, but if you look down, you might see you're holding the reins.

Vengeance is just an empty chest you choose to carry.

Do you think this is what Ankran would have wanted?' he muttered. 'To be dead?' said Jaud. 'I doubt it.

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." "The

But there comes a time you have to say no to what you're given and reach for what you want.

I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else

Should've stayed a carpenter," he whispered. But the sword had been the easier choice. To work wood you need all manner of tools–chisels and saws, axes great and small, nails and hammers, awls and planes. To be a killer you just need two. A blade and the will.

Once you set your mind on killing, it is hard to choose the number of the dead.

It's easy to scream about the fence when you're on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people's sacrifices aren't that hard to make.

Misjudgement is as much a part of life as unhappiness. It is nice to hold the power and make the choices for everyone. But the risk of making any choice is always that you might make the wrong one. We must make our choices nonetheless. Fear of being a grown-up is a poor reason to remain a child.

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.