Quotes About Choice

I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes.

Because our birth mothers made a choice for us that dramatically changed the course of our lives and over which we had no control, many of us have a foundational belief (often unconscious) that we don't have the right to choose our own course in life. We feel instead that we are at the mercy of others.

How you choose to respond to each moment of the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Because adoption is a lifelong journey, we have a future filled with the potential to learn invaluable lessons. But many of us haven't been taught that we have a choice in every situation in life.

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

Talon glanced wistfully at his drink as he debated what should take priority. 'Coffee… Daimons… Coffee… Daimons…

You don't knock on the devil's door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker) Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)

You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

I'm beginning to think the only choice anyone has in life is between either a bad choice or a worse one.

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don't. Choices aren't always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

three out of four demons prefer barbeque sauce over hemoglobin

We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.

there was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

So let me see if I got everything straight … This … means that we are somehow meant to be husband and wife. But if I refuse you, you spend the rest of your life impotent and alone? But I, on the other hand, am free to live my life however I see fit?" He nodded. "It really sucks to be you, doesn't it?

it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.

Why were we fighting if you had that kind of power? In unison, every ex-Dark-Hunter and Nick said, Just because you can doesn't mean you should. And sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right, Wulf said. When the other guys looked confused by his solo outburst, he added, I guess I'm the only one he ever said that one to.

Move or die. (Quills) Never give someone a choice that doesn't leave them with any way out except to hurt you. (Devyn)

So what's it to be, Bear? Dev lifted his leg and gave a sarcastic slap to his thigh. By golly, I'll take door number two, Bob. You know the one that calls for straight suicide with a side of mutilation and pain? Sign my hairy ass up for that and don't be late.

Why do you think there's only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell? Because it's a lot easier to slide down then climb up, and it takes a whole lot less energy to boot.