Quotes About Choice

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

Sin or sacrament, Kevin," she said. "Which is it? Which do you want to be?

Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

But the point is not to spin the narrative; that defeats the purpose, in some way, of story itself. You can't change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn't make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don't get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

No, I won't marry you. I won't do it. No one can force me.

maybe it seemed like Sam ran so far because I had run the opposite direction.

You look at me with eyes that see only honor and gallantry. The truth is darker yet. Being Sonja means being called to darkness and pain. And knowing that you have the power to alter and take the lives of many. A great many. And praying to the gods that you always choose the right side.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry about the worst thing that can happen as it does to hope for the best. It's up to you to choose.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

Reading this chapter is optional but as you've read it you've read it.

En este amor no entré por desvarío, ni lo traté, como otros, con engaños, ni fue por elección de mi albedrío: desde mis tiernos y primeros años a aquella parte m'enclinó mi estrella y aquel fiero destino de mis daños.

pain is pain and grief is grief. It might be inevitable, it might even be built into the nature of things, but it isn't good, and it ought not to be tolerated, if there's a choice.)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing," said the Dog "What does that mean?" "I have no idea," said the Dog

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

C)hoice without alternative is only a sleight of hand; it is a magician's force-play, during which you believe you have free well, but your fate has already been decided: the magician knows which card you will pick!

Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn't possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.