Quotes About Choice

It's her privilege to say or think whatever she wants. It's mine to ignore her.

Life, love, and happiness. Life, one doesn't have a choice about. Love is negotiable. Happiness—that's the tough one

in our choices directing our future." Amanda

Beggars can't be choosers.

The past is the past. We can't undo it," Tabby said after a long sigh. "What you did almost two decades ago can't define the future any more than what I did about that same time can determine how tomorrow looks for me. We'd probably all choose to do things different if we could go back, but then we have to ask ourselves if we would be the same people we are today if we could do that.

get up in the morning and we decide to be either bitter about the past or happy

We all just get a day at a time. It's up to us whether we fight the demons that plague us or if we give in to them.

you could have missed the pain, but you'd have had to miss the dance,'

According to the sermon that night, God worked things out. Whether folks liked it or not was up to them. They could be bitter or they could be better. Bitter had the letter I in it, and every single time people put themselves first, it became a problem that created a bitter attitude.

I always told my callers, you can choose. You can decide what to do. Don't blame your homicidal urges or basic assholeness on being a monster, because you can choose. God help me. God, help me.

To me it is the irony of fate," she said. "The way they come here. Those moths could fly anywhere. Yet they keep hanging around the windows of this house.

If you want freedom, somebody's got to fuck a rat.

People are moderately more likely to favor approaches that involve reflection and deliberation.

When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.

As he tightened his embrace around her, he knew he'd made the right choice. He held the whole world in his arms.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."40

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

Years later Tubman likened her decision to an epiphany: "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."40

Depending upon the nature of the cultural information received, the Métis person might decide to identify as First Nations exclusively. Some people may choose to identify as both First Nations and Métis; it is the federal government that requires people to choose one of the two. (p. 45)

You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.

chances given, chances not given, chances taken, chances lost. How are you supposed to know which to give, which not?

You could foster happiness and add to our joy - or sow hurt and discord. It's a choice you make each day, each hour, and with each thought.

to certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No...

Beggars can't be choosers.