Quotes About Choice

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will become. Not the memories of the past.

I said, 'tart'!" she snapped. Lane's brows went up, but I merely continued to smile, choosing to assume that her answer was a reference to where the berries should go, and not to my person.

It was because this stark world LeBlanc was trying to create was a lie; there was spectrum of color between black and white, and many, many layers of choice between yes and no.

A man can lose his life falling off a mountain or falling off a hill. In the end it will not matter how he died, but how he lived. The important thing is to grab the life you can and make the most of it. - Gold Mountain

Right and wrong depend on where you're standing. Stealing is wrong if you're the one being stolen from, but it's right if you're only alternative is to starve to death. Choice is an easier concept to handle, especially if no one else is affected by your choice. That doesn't often happen, but I still believe we're all entitled to live according to what we want rather then what others do.

Our words can make or break a marriage, paralyze or propel a friend, sew together or tear apart a relationship, build up or bury a dream, curse God or confess Christ. With our tongues we defend or destroy, heal or kill, cheer or churn. And we, as women, seem to be quite talented at deciding when and where to wield this tiny sword.

ONE OF THE greatest gifts you can give your newborn is to raise him or her as a vegetarian. The choice to have a baby is courageous on so many levels—all of which reflect the desire to pass on the gift of life—and what better way to affirm the sacredness of life than to shape your baby's eating patterns in a way that is optimal for health and simultaneously spares other beings from harm?

But it is well to always remember that you have options, precisely as you did before your gift broke through.

Claire and Molly eventually got their chairs returned, but they haven't chosen to be buddies for anybody yet. That's fine with me.

If I could choose, a place to die," it would never have been in your arms, old darling, we figured I'd see you out, in mine

Electra Gates would never concern herself with how much lard should be in pie dough, I thought; but then, I was not Electra Gates. I wanted pie, something that didn't seem to interest romantic heroines.

As long as we draw breath, we have the option to change what we don't like.

You do not decide first if you want to live in a village or a court. You decide if that is the man you want to live with, and then you say yes or no.

Mally likes to have boundaries. She likes to know that making a choice means she has to give up something else. She likes to think that actions have consequences. It makes her feel like the world makes sense.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.

A biblical woman embraces God's callings, chooses wisely, lives courageously, and expects God's greater reward.

Proverbs 11:27 has a great summary of both sides: 'If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!' Ultimately, for better or for worse, it is often our *actions* that end up determining how we feel.

We grunt like mutts or faint like bitches; take your pick.

Now I understood there was something stronger than fate. Choice. It was ugly and quotidian and lacked romance, and that was exactly what gave it its strength.

Living one way is not a criticism of every other way of living. Is that the threat of the woman without kids? Yet the woman without kids is not saying that no woman should have kids, or that you-woman with a stroller- have made the wrong choice. Her decision about her life is no statement about yours. One person's life is not a political or general statement about how all lives should be. Other lives should be able to exist alongside our own without any threat or judgment at all.