Quotes About Choice

But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through.

Brittany flew out of school today, following Burro Face. Before I left I saw them together in an intimate conversation by the back field. She picked him over me, which really shouldn't surprise me. When she asked me in chemistry what she should do, I should have told her to dump that pendejo. Then I'd be happy instead of pissed off. ¡Es un carbón de mierda? He doesn't deserve her. Okay, so I don't, either.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

There must have been a moment when the key clicked and turned-- a moment of decision, involving me-- but when I go back I find only the door, fist closed, then open, never the act of opening it.

Looking back in retrospect and regretting your past, you miss the opportunities in front of you.

The only time life become harsh to us, is when we allow it.

Whatever decision you make, let it be the one that will set your mind free.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats,though.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

There is nothing more becoming a wise man than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art. Let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters than thy inferiors; shunning always such as are poor and needy, for if thou givest twenty gifts and refuse to do the like but once, all that thou hast done will be lost, and such men will become thy mortal enemies.

I mean that you've invented the story yourself. It belong to you, not me. You've already chosen an ending, a way out. I suppose it's inevitable that you want satisfaction.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.