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Quotes About Choice

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
~ Agatha Christie
You are young still. Naturally, one tries this, that and the other, but what one eventually settles down into is the life one prefers.
~ Agatha Christie
E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back? HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom! ~Ericsson; Hilary Craven
~ Agatha Christie
It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes - such a multitude of odds and ends. Out of them all what has mattered? What lies behind the selection that memory has made? What makes us choose the things that we have remembered? It is as though one went to a great trunk full of junk in an attic and plunged one's hands into it and said, 'I will have this - and this - and this.
~ Agatha Christie
Mademoiselle, se non è sposata, vuol dire che nessuno del mio sesso è stato abbastanza eloquente: per scelta e non per necessità, si resta nubili.
~ Agatha Christie
This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.
~ Agatha Christie
Poirot var og ble en urokkelig tilhenger av den kontinentale form for frokost. Han ble helt ute av seg over å se meg sette til livs egg og bacon, - så sa han iallfall. Derfor spiste han da også frokost bestående av kaffe og rundstykker, mens jeg hadde min frihet til å begynne dagen alene med engelskmannens tradisjonelle egg og bacon og marmelade.
~ Agatha Christie
It is difficult to know quite where to begin this story, but I have fixed my choice on a certain Wednesday at luncheon at the Vicarage.
~ Agatha Christie
Coge lo que quieras y paga por ello, dice Dios».
~ Agatha Christie
There comes to everyone a turning point in their lives, M. Poirot. They stand at the crossroads and have to decide. My profession interests me enormously; it is a sorrow - a very great sorrow - to abandon it. But there are other claims. There is, M. Poirot, the happiness of a human being.
~ Agatha Christie
Mr Goby turned over another leaf of his notebook and selected his confidante: he chose an electric radiator...
~ Agatha Christie
Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.
~ Agatha Christie
But you see, Miss Helier, this isn't a serial story. This is real life; and real life stops just where it chooses.
~ Agatha Christie
You've heard the truth and you can take it or leave it as far as I am concerned.
~ Agatha Christie
no unit can ever act or do something outside of their inherent program! Whether you tell yourself this is your choice or you call it your fate, in reality, it is not possible for you to live or strive for something that is not already included in your life purpose and program!
~ Ahmed Hulusi
Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.
~ Ahmed Korayem
People aren't predestined with a purpose. Like an elaborate lie, we make it up as we go along
~ Ahmed Korayem
Arday kastaa waa inuu laba mid uun doortaa, xanuunka edbinta nafta, ama xanuunka qoomamaynta wakhtiyadii uu daayacay.
~ Ahmed Omaar
Every student must choose one of two pains: The pain of self-discipline or the pain of regret of negleted opportunities.
~ Ahmed Omaar
We have a choice: to Hear God's Voice or just Hear the Noise.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Whatever our present is not magic... It may be good,it may be tragic... It depends on what we did in the past, karma will decide until when it will last.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Whatever our Present, it is not Magic… It may be Good, it may be Tragic… It depends on what we did in the past, Karma will decide until when it will last.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
any place you don't want to be is a prison.
~ Ajahn Brahm
Any place you don't want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.
~ Ajahn Brahm