Quotes About Choice

I'll make a quick exit. A needleful or two of morphine will do it. Best that way: if I allowed myself to live, I would disgorge too much truth. Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practise their bravery. Though they may not have a choice about that, since they lack my privileges.

But such messages can be dangerous. Think twice before you wish, and especially before you wish to make yourself into the hand of fate. (Think twice,said Reenie. Laura said,Why only twice? )

Back to the man's face. Not a handsome face as such, but a face you could trust. Sort of like a math teacher, or a minister. You can tell he's sincere, and sincere is better than handsome. Really handsome men were a bad idea, said Grandma Win, because they had too much to choose from. Too much what? Charmaine had asked her, and Grandma Win said, Never mind.

The brain is very protective, it decides what we choose to remember.

Una rata que está dentro de un laberinto es libre de ir a cualquier sitio, siempre que permanezca dentro del laberinto.

God isn't what they say," she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both.

T]he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely by themselves (no one had forced them, no one had threatened them) had not been performed willingly. They felt cheated as well, as if the price had been too low. Why hadn't they demanded more? And yet, the mothers told themselves, they'd had no choice.

I don't know if I'm a bottom because it turns me on, or if I'm a bottom because I'm lazy.

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.

We rarely choose what is subtracted from our lives, but we can choose how we respond. How we reorganize our lives in order to move forward.

Roman noticed that both women seemed instinctively opposed to the idea. "David's the logical choice," said Ulrike. Eric and Cliff protested, but Rikki overrode them. "It's less complicated.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world." "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.

This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know, " said Ray. "My mums a plumber.

It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.