Quotes About Choice

And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.

Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

Perhaps it was in order to be saved, that Adam did what he did. He feared his ruin, the happiness.

Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.

Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?

Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?

You think Tide is better, or All?' 'Which has a prettier box?' I ask. 'I don't want a pretty box. I want a dude box.' Uh-huh,' I deadpan. 'You want a dude box of laundry detergent.' 'Yes, I do.' 'Good luck with that.

What if In another universe, A split reality,

Do not accept an evil you can change. (p.101)

Kesempatan kedua, boleh saja. Tapi kesempatan berikut - berikutnya hanya akan jadi kesempatan konyol.

There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternate choice has been made, or an accident has turned out differently. Everyone has duplicates of themselves in these other worlds. Different selves with different lives, different luck. Variations.

Ne pas naître est sans contredit la meilleur formule qui soit. Elle n'est malheureusement à la portée de personne

When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative.

I would rather go up to heaven by myself than be pushed by cherubs:

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

In Western individualist cultures, the decision to become a Christian is a personal and individual decision.

Your capacity to say 'No' determines your capacity to say 'Yes' to greater things.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.