Quotes About Choice

It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

Question: When you're one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It's how you choose to answer that question that defines you.

But when you fight evil every day, stare it in the face, engage it, learn to think like it, you face a choice:Be defeated by the limits of your own morality, or summon a beast in yourself that obeys none.

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.

Fear of the power you believe someone or something has over you is nothing but a jail cell you choose to walk into.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for.

That had taken enormous courage. To love someone you knew wanted someone else, too, but had, for whatever reason, chosen you.

No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit.

I love books, by the way, more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Choose the men you take to your bed by these criteria: they see the finest in you, enhance and defend it.

It was a risky thing he'd just done, of a certain, because if she never agreed, Drustan MacKeltar would ache endlessly for her. His heart trapped by the binding spell, he would sense her eternally, would love her eternally. But should she one day choose to freely give the words back, the bond would intensify a thousandfold. He could live for such a hope.

Life is short. At the buffet of it, who doesn't want the best dessert?

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with.

Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

It's not my fault who I am. The only thing that's my fault is what I choose to do with it.

Omission or commission—the end result is the same.

The bottom line is we choose our epitaphs.

Once, he told them the truth. Chiseled a single commandment upon a slab of stone: That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. The man to whom he'd entrusted the tablet promptly shattered it, chiseled ten precise commands upon two stone slabs and carried them down a mountain with the pomp and circumstance of a prophet. Religious wars ravaged that world ever since.

I don't know what I can and can't do, Cruce, but I will learn, and quickly, and if you make me learn the hard way, I'll turn every bit of it against you. I can be the sheepdog that walks at your side, or I can be the wolf you don't want living in your backyard. The powerful, hungry, savage, and pissed-off wolf, and I promise you, I will delight in destroying your backyard. I have a long memory and few scruples left. It's your call, babe.

A stolen touch can never compete with a voluntary touch of hunger, passion, desire. The aria of choice is joyous, the cacophony of force brutal, ugly, and cold.

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.

Then why? Why would you do something that you know is going to end up bad? Why would anyone ever do something they know is going to hurt them?

You know I'm no' a good man," he said, his voice deceptively gentle, belying the steel beneath it. "I've made no excuses. I've given you no pretty lies. You came with me anyway. Doona pretend you doona know what I want and doona think to deny me. Twice now you've tried to go back. There is no going back with me, Chloe-lass.