Quotes About Choice

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.

I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!

Sheer experience had already taught her that in some circumstances there was one thing better than to lead a good life, and that was to be saved from leading any life whatever.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

They did not vary their partners if their inclination were to stick to previous ones.Changing partners simply meant that a satisfactory choice had not as yet been arrived at by one or other of the pair, and by this time every couple had been suitably matched. It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

In general the cows were milked as they presented themselves, without fancy or choice. But certain cows will show a fondness for a particular pair of hands, sometimes carrying this predilection so far as to refuse to stand at all except to their favourite, the pail of a stranger being unceremoniously kicked over.

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

The truth is, that I never care much for reading what one ought to read; I wish I did, but I cannot help it.  And

In about the time a person unaccustomed to bodily labour would have decided upon which side to lie, Farmer Oak was asleep.   The

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single, we do.

It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you. 

I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating that a giver-away should be required at all. According to the ceremony as there printed, my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure; but I don't choose him. Somebody gives me to him, like a she-ass or she-goat, or any other domestic animal.

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand- she's as good as any other; they'll be all alike in the groundwork; 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

Over and above the genuine emotion which she raised in his heart there hung the sense that he was casting a die by impulse which he might not have thrown by judgment.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Let us toss as men do

Any woman who has ever tried will know without explanation what an unpalatable task it is to dismiss, even when she does not love him, a man who has all the natural and moral qualities she would desire, and only fails in the social. Would-be lovers are not so numerous, even with the best women, that the sacrifice of one can be felt as other than a good thing wasted, in a world where there are few good things.

Per quanto contraddittorio possa sembrare, non c'è nulla di più vero che chi ha sempre fatto la scelta giusta non sa nemmeno la metà sulla natura e i modi di operare la scelta giusta, di chi ha fatto le scelte sbagliate.

Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?

Crawford was home for a month from the hospital, the chest pains came again in the night. Instead of calling an ambulance and going through it all again, he chose simply to roll over to the solace of his late wife's side of the bed.

This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!