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Quotes About Choice

Lucky for us Emily was not a man," said Julia, "or she might have drunk herself to death at the Black Bull. It was better to write Wuthering Heights, but she really had no choice.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Lucky for me I didn't know. Why lucky for her? Not lucky for the people she was protecting, but lucky for Ró?a. She didn't have to choose.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?
~ Elizabeth Wein
What right had she to oppose him? Yet it was he who had given her freedom. The word was meaningless unless in its light each one lived up to his highest and his best.
~ Elizabeth Yates
You take romance - I'll take Jell-O.
~ Ella Fitzgerald
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I would rather be faithful to my future than to my past, if it becomes a matter of choice.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
if I take that shotgun
~ Elle James
If she didn't go, she'd wonder
~ Elle James
Her name was Flower, oddly imprecise for one so much herself, as though her parents had wrestled with names like Daisy, Violet, and Rose, lost their way amid so many choices, and settled for this generic solution.
~ Ellen Datlow
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Never follow anyone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.
~ Ellen Frankfort
Our standing before God depends, not upon the amount of light we have received, but upon the use we make of what we have. Thus even the heathen who choose the right as far as they can distinguish it are in a more favorable condition than are those who have had great light, and profess to serve God, but who disregard the light, and by their daily life contradict their profession. The
~ Ellen G. White
But self-will is blind.
~ Ellen G. White
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15.
~ Ellen G. White
Thus Esau despised his birthright." In disposing of it he felt a sense of relief. Now his way was unobstructed; he could do as he liked. For this wild pleasure, miscalled freedom, how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance
~ Ellen G. White
Though the people of Gergesa had not received Jesus, He did not leave them to the darkness they had chosen. When they bade Him depart from them, they had not heard His words. They were ignorant of that which they were rejecting. Therefore He again sent the light to them, and by those to whom they would not refuse to listen. In
~ Ellen G. White