Quotes About Choice

Why did it seem like the only way to live-was to disobey?

It is their everlasting switching that is the dangerous thing, not what they choose

It wasn't that Mira had met her in some previous life. It was that she was meeting her in this one-and isn't that rare! Why is it so hard to meet in this life? But the deeper question was: What was one supposed to do with such people? Fuck them, love them, or leave them alone? Yet they seemed to call out to be acted upon.

style is about knowing what you like and why you like it, more than anything else. GRACE

And another dark shadow on a dark lawn: the fact that for a woman of curiosity, no decision will ever feel like the right one. In both, too much is missing.

As I was watching, I thought about how unfair it was that she and I had to think about having kids—that we had to sit here talking about it, feeling like if we didn't have children, we would always regret it. It suddenly seemed like a huge conspiracy to keep women in their thirties—when you finally have some brains and some skills and experience—from doing anything useful with them at all.

Sexual intercourse is the only purely reproductive sexual practice and if it is engaged in by women only when they wish to procreate then reproduction is under women's control. Once sexual intercourse is established as compulsory then women have recourse only to artificial contraception, abortion, and infanticide, to control reproduction and childbearing.

For far too many, pregnancy and birth is still something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

Yeah. If everything else fails, we'll use the S-O-D-D-I defense." "SODDI?" Pete asks. "Some Other Dude Did It. We need to give the jury a choice.

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?

If there were a choice—and he suspected there was—a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.

When people give you their two cents, you can either save it or spend it.

I saw something in you that I couldn't live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It's not one sided, it only works when both people choose the other. You are perfect for me in every way.

Didn't have much choice. Couldn't handle the whining." "She whines?" "Not her, but a teacup poodle." "Canines have teacup poodle shifters now?

No, you'll regret it in the morning." "But it'll make me happy now.

Look, I've got her, I'm carrying her, and I'm taking her to the hospital. So you can back off and let me do what I'm going to do, or you can get your ass kicked and I'm still going to do what I'm going to do. Your choice.

He mockingly gave her the raised eyebrow back. "You never gave me an answer." "Yeah. I did. In fact, my exact words were 'no'." "Yes, but I've chosen to ignore that until I hear what I want.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.