Quotes About Choice

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Nicht der Weg war das Ziel. Das Ziel hatte einen Weg, und den musste man irgendwann einschlagen.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road?

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It's not a chance, it's a choice.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Your choice requires courage, determination, and commitment—and personal ownership.

Our compliance is our choice. No one can control someone else (unless the person being controlled allows it). No one controls you—unless you allow that control. Sure, she can put the screws to your head, but ultimately what you do within the circumstances of your life is dependent on what you allow and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have things your own way or to win approval.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use? A hope, to sing by gladly? or a fine Sad memory, with thy songs to interfuse? A shade, in which to sing—of palm or pine? A grave, on which to rest from singing? Choose.

Observe, I am no Napoleonist. I am simply a democrat, and hold that the majority of a nation has the right of choice upon the question of its own government, even where it makes a mistake. Therefore the outcry of the English newspapers is most disgusting to me.

Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.

We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

She was Alasdair Conn's oldest daughter, the Princess of the Jacob's Ladder. She was both fierce and beautiful, and why she'd chosen him, he'd never know.

Kusanagi-Jones had only one idea, and it involved doing something he hadn't willingly done in his adult life.

Is this the side thou'rt choosing, then, sweet poet? After all the kindness of the Fae to thee?" "Kindness?" Kit snorted, not caring that Baines could see this lips. "Is that what thou callest it, my Queen?

Was it different if you went in knowing you had made the decision to kill? Was it different if you did it in self-defense? In defense of another? In defense of a species?

He let her have the silence while she selected her words.

When you can sound like anything you like, why not sound like something pleasant?

I must not clutch my throat, I will not. And I will not give her Strifbjorn, even for that. Even for freedom. Not Strifbjorn. But perchance, anything else.

Is this Morgan's game, or the Merlin's test?