Quotes About Choice

only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Traición no es lo contrario de amor; es una de sus opciones. Traidor –creo– es quien cambia a ojos de aquellos que no pueden cambiar y no cambiarán, aquellos que odian cambiar y no pueden concebir el cambio, a pesar de que siempre quieran cambiarle a uno. En otras palabras, traidor, a ojos del fanático, es cualquiera que cambia. Y es dura la elección entre convertirse en un fanático o convertirse en un traidor.

For example, the questions that say, Would you prefer... Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is Depends. But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never.

You want to be choosy about what you let into your soul when you are likely not long for this world.

I have a choice. That's why I'm still here.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.

Memory, in fact, gives you no choice over which moments you can erase, and it is annoyingly persistent in retaining the most painful ones. It is extraordinarily faithful in recording the most hideous details, and it will recall them for you in the future with moments that are even only vaguely similar.

If you don't take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.

Fate changes when you change your clothes.

The next world is 'segregated'? You can go to the World of Yin only if you're Chinese? No-no! Miss Banner, she not Chinese, she go to Yin World. All depend what you love, what you believe. You love Jesus, go Jesus House. You love Allah, go Allah Land. You love sleep, go sleep. What if you don't believe in anything for sure before you die? Then you go big place, like Disneyland, many places can go try--you like, you decide. No charge, of course.

What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

What was worse, we asked ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

Qué era peor, nos preguntábamos entre nosotras, sentarnos y esperar la muerte con el rostro apropiadamente sombrío, o buscar una manera de ser felices a pesar de todo?

But my main motivation is fear of regret. I worry that if I didn't go, one day I'd look back and wonder, What if I had?

Qué es el pasado si no aquello que elegimos recordar?

We could choose what we wanted to believe. However, she added, any student who did not choose to believe in Jesus was a corpse-eating maggot, and when this unbeliever died, she would tumble into the underworld, where her body would be pierced by a bayonet, roasted like a duck, and forced to suffer all kinds of tortures that were worse than what was happening in Manchuria.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.