Quotes About Choice

There are good fathers and bad fathers, good sons and bad sons, good husbands and bad ones, but great friends are all alike. We choose them and keep them. We aren't bound to them by anything but love.

One cannot convince another to love anything or anyone.

I have sex," Grace shrugged. I meant with a man," Claudia said dryly. Now why would I ruin something so good by inviting a man along?" Grace asked.

For the rest of his life he'd remember how she looked in that moment as she put her mark on his soul with four little words. "I've made my choice.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

What you're asking me to do is monstrous." "So? Ain't we both monsters?

In a choice between committing an act of grievous heresy-possibly even an act of evil-and losing my brother, I had chosen to commit heresy. And no matter how much it sickened me, I knew I would make the same choice again.

Sometimes in life it was important to stop thinking about what might have been, and think about what could be.

I'm still sad. Part of me will always be sad, and there are days when I'm crushed by it. But the truth is that sometimes life sends you change that you wouldn't have chosen, and this was one of those times. I had no choice about losing Cameron, but I do have a choice about what I do with my life from now on. I miss him terribly, but I intend to get out of bed and keep living, no matter how hard that feels. And all the memories can come along with me.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate.

Frances tänkte inte be om ursäkt. Bättre att vara som jag, tänkte hon, än att vara gift. Hellre ungmö än trångsynt tjänstemannafru!

it is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

It is time to renew the battle for reproductive rights. We have been outmaneuvered, outspent, outpostured, and outvoted by a group of single-issue activists. It has taken them nearly two decades to turn back the principles of Roe. Let's make sure it takes us a shorter time to replace protection for reproductive choice.

We can be in grief, we can itch, we can be overwhelmed, and we can choose to do something about it. We don't have to be rendered numb, asleep, despairing. I learned some time back that I could be fretting with anxiety and I could choose to live a great life.

You choose. You might not even know why, but you do. You commit. Then you do the work. Oh, yeah. Then you falter. And fuck up. And go back to the beginning.

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!—PROVERBS 16:16

I can say no at any time " "Yes." "But aren't I supposed to do whatever you say " "Only if you want to. That's what makes the power exchange of D s so potent. It's a free exchange one that is meant to give us both what we need.

Restricted happiness is better than the freedom of solitude." -Yuichi to Wataru

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. From

maybe moths don't think lightbulbs are the moon. Maybe they found out how far away the moon is, and simply chose suicide instead of failure. Wouldn't you?

The power of military might is a Babylonian reality, not a new Jerusalem one. The Lamb was slaughtered because he refused to use Babylon's weapons, and the way of the Lamb is to conquer by the "sword from his mouth," not a sword drawn from a scabbard. The Word of God is the weapon of choice for those walking in the way of the Lamb.