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Quotes About Choice

better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
La cosa estaba entre ser Cazador Oscuro o profeta. Personalmente, me gusta mucho más lo de luchar y matar que lo de rezar en la posición del loto.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tidak ada lagi harapan menyiratkan bahwa harapan pernah ada. Dan harapan hanya ada untuk orang-orang yang memiliki pilihan.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Åžeytanla dans etmeye kalkarsan, ÅŸark?y? genellikle ÅŸeytan seçer.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nothing a woman gives is worth having unless she gives it of her own free will.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
they, like you, were born to walk the like of shadows. One foot in the light and one in the dark. A few are scared enough of both that they stay in the middle and never pick a side. Others are strong enough to choose the light and stay firmly planted there, even while the darkness tries to claim them. And others are too weak or blind to fight the lure of the darkness. It overwhelms them with false promises and before they know what's happened it owns them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lo que uno más lamenta es lo que alguna vez no tuvo el coraje de hacer
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
they, like you, were born to walk the line of shadows. One foot in the light and one in the dark. A few are scared enough of both that they stay in the middle and never pick a side. Others are strong enough to choose the light and stay firmly planted there, even while the darkness tries to claim them. And others are too weak or blind to fight the lure of the darkness. It overwhelms them with false promises and before they know what's happened it owns them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
People don't lose their lives, Your Majesty. Their lives are taken from them, or else they lay them down themselves. And which will be your fate, Gabriel? I'll lay mine down, Lady.
~ Sherryl Jordan
But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right.
~ Sherwood Smith
I'd learned something, all right, about the power of attraction, and Nee was right, it was potent. But I'd also learned that the self might want one thing, but that didn't mean it was right. Isn't that why we have minds?
~ Sherwood Smith
The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more than five months overdue, and I wondered whether I would have chosen differently if I had known that these were the last books, the ones which would stand forever on our kitchen shelf.
~ Shirley Jackson
Where did he go, your father?' 'Africa.' 'What for?' 'To shoot lions, of course.' 'What on Earth for ?' said Mrs. Willow blankly. 'Some people shoot lions,' the girl said pleasantly, 'and some people do not shoot lions. My father is one of the people who do.
~ Shirley Jackson
I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.
~ Shirley Jackson
I personally preferred to chance the arsenic," Uncle Julian said.
~ Shirley Jackson
It has always been my opinion, you know, that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.
~ Shirley Jackson
It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.
~ Shirley Jackson
A spiritually evolved person in a former lifetime could choose to have the experiences of spiritual blindness in this lifetime, just to act as a catalyst for someone like you who needed to be more articulate about what you had come to realize.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
~ Shiro Amano
There is far less freedom and arbitrariness in mental life, however, than we are inclined to assume - there may even be none at all.
~ Sigmund Freud
That there could be something in the world that a woman could want more than children has been viewed as unacceptable. Things may be marginally different now, but, even if there is something she wants more than children, that is no reason for a woman to remain childless. Any normal woman, it is understood, wants—and should want—both.
~ Sigrid Nunez