Quotes About Choice

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know.

This mask is attached to pure oxygen, which is thought to be very beneficial to someone suffering a diving injury, and to their chances of recovery," Dave recited. "I suggest you breathe the oxygen, but the choice is entirely yours.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

Nu ar fi mai simplu pentru guvern sa dizolve poporul si sa aleaga altul?

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?

Thought is power -- real, objective power. Moreover, the thoughts we create have a life of their own. They have a kind of material reality that affects other people for good or ill -- hence our responsibility to chose.

If people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves.

My mother used to say that each day was a gift and how we chose to unwrap it would determine our happiness.

We are the authors of our lives, and, through choice or circumstance, some of us leave our stories unfinished or untold. Though it's taken me a long while to get here, I've come to accept that life, like the vast woodlands that surround my childhood home, is layered with mysteries.

That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

Look," she said, smiling out at the trees, the sky, and the birds flying by. "That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

I stared at the room full of caskets on display—their lids gaping open like hungry mouths, waiting to swallow up the newly departed. I decided I'd much rather exit this world in a crackle of flames and a swirl of smoke through my ribs than be cooped up for all eternity in a dark box surrounded by puffy white satin.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

We must all serve God on the path we are given, milord. Even though that path may not be what we ourselves would choose.

To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads.

No to marriage proposals, in which the concept of "forever," as Florence Nightingale famously said, slid into "never." As in never being wholly oneself; never being permitted to make up one's own mind; never to be able to move about freely.

But in my experience, a writer gravitates toward a certain form or genre because, like a well-made jacket, it suits him.

Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

I've always liked men better than women.

My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

liked her even if he hadn't loved her; possibly, if Nelissa hadn't suddenly become available