Quotes About Choice

Sooner or later,' Heng said, and I was reminded of Captain Trouin speaking in the opium house, 'one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.

You've got to choose some line of action and live by it. Otherwise nothing matters at all.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moments of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

To work upon the world of created things and to magnify darkness or light, as we choose, to glorify good or evil, as we choose, to exalt love or hate, as we choose … The power is the gift but the choice is always ours.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

It's my destiny. Sometimes you're confronted with things in your life and you realise that you have to deal with them. You don't have a choice, because that's what you were born for

When something's one thing, it's not another.

Jei gyvenimas jums k? nors si?lo, k? darote? Atmetate? Užsimerkiate, nusisukate? Apsimetate, kad ??jote ne pro tas duris. Tai skirta ne man, kažkam kitam...

Could she have done what she'd done today if she'd had a mother to go to? Could she have had the life she didn't yet know she was going to have? Could her mother have known, making her dreadful choice, how she had blessed her?

All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn.

Here the choice is simple. To remain at play within the field of living, fluid consciousness. Or to turn and face down evil one last time.

We are more than any family could be. We fought and argued and loved and learned through the long, cold voyage. We chose teams, disbanded, re-formed, chose again, and now the fit is perfection within diversity.

Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

The only reason he can miss you is because he's choosing, every day, not to be with you.

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

the end, only you can make you happy.

Broad is the gate that leads to destruction, but narrow the way that leads to salvation. . . .

We rarely act from logic when facing the critical choices of our lives.

Complexity offers refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, most of us would prefer to do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi.

IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

There it was, the choice I'd confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!

She would give him one more chance, Phasma decided. One last chance for FN-2187 to decide his fate.