Quotes About Choice

Esforzarse es obligatorio. Sufrir es opcional.

You're a passionate woman, Brie. You have a powerful libido. It's a good thing you chose a Latino." He grinned. "We have a reputation for being able to handle hot women like you." "You

Leslie, it doesn't matter how other people feel about your spouse! Don't you see? You chose him, you had to live with him, he was your package to adore or be fed up with! Once you made your choice, I didn't have a right to an opinion.

Every time his eyes even fell on her, he felt himself swell with pride that she would choose him. It

What movie did you decide on?" "What Women Want. Mel Gibson." "I better pay attention to that one," he laughed. "I seem to be deficient in that department." When they'd finished, he picked up their trays. "You can start it or wait for me to do dishes, your choice." "I'll wait," she said. And once the water was running in the little kitchen, she murmured, "And you're not deficient in anything." *

resort. Yes, exactly, only now, after all this time, I had discovered that the grenade was a dud, and I could hop right back to that same old spot which was safety. The excruciating thing was that those two selves were now warring with each other. I wanted desperately to find those camels, and I wanted desperately not to find them. The pilot snapped me back to the present dilemma. 'Well, what do you want to do? Shall

Lee saved my life that day. I thought she'd disrupted my plan, destroyed my future, but if I had gotten into that boat with Jesse, I'd be dead. I am only alive because of her.

She didn't add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine.

I can't say I forgive her for refusing to indulge the perhapsness of what we might have been, but I understand why she chose to do it, and she never asked for my forgiveness.

But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down a different road.

You're the one who has to live with your choice. Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

I love that there's such a rivalry. It's like, leaf water versus bean water, ya know?

But we're the ones who choose, in the end, how people see us.

Thinking about it like that made it more bearable, that we go back to God when we've had our turn, that some of us roll the dice less than we'd like, but that we're the ones who are rolling them.

We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary—made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to.

I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.

You really know how to pick 'em, don't you?" Toby joked. "I think I'm cursed.

The saying at Latham was 'Welcome to the rotation,' but the unspoken second half of that phrase was 'you can exit through either of two doors.

Why she would choose a town where she barely knew anyone, and a boyfriend who knew how broken felt.

It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

No Christian has the power to avoid suffering entirely. It is the human condition. What we do control is how we act in the face of it. Will we run from it and betray our Lord? Or will we accept it as a severe mercy? The choices we will make when put to the ultimate test depend on the choices we make today, in a time of peace.

The essence of modernity is to deny that there are any transcendent stories, structures, habits, or beliefs to which individuals must submit and that should bind our conduct. To be modern is to be free to choose. What is chosen does not matter; the meaning is in the choice itself. There is no sacred order, no other world, no fixed virtues and permanent truths. There is only here and now and the eternal flame of human desire. Volo ergo sum—I want, therefore I am.

En otras palabras, nuestra cultura actual está basada en el culto al deseo, y en lugar de enseñarnos a qué debemos renunciar si queremos seguir perteneciendo a esta civilización, nos dice que, como seres autónomos con capacidad de elección, debemos desprendernos de las antiguas prohibiciones para descubrir el sentido y el propósito de nuestra existencia.

Here is the end point of modernity: the autonomous, freely choosing individual, finding meaning in no one but himself.