Quotes About Choice

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you and you alone to decide. - Cavett Robert The

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.

If you don't change the road you're travelling on, you'll probably end up where you're going.'" Mohammed

Be petulant, selfish, and happy? Or be generous . . . and miserable.

make the choice to focus forward.

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

the whole, that I prefer

I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.

Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so it doesn't matter to me.

I love you enough to never make you choose.

Wes slid two more cigarettes out of the pack, offering one to me. "I don't smoke." "Why not? It gives you superpowers, you know." "What? Like cancer?" I said

A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian

Allen Walker, we're giving you a chance to abandon the Order of your own free will. (heart) This is your retirement party. (heart)

If you agree to come with us…I'll end this show.

Abandon the Order, Allen Walker. If you do…I'll stop this tragic slaughter.

His love is both pure and terrifying at the same time. Will his choice bring him satisfaction?

Allen Walker…since the Fourteenth revealed that he was the pianist, I've dreamt about him. That night…I still…wonder…why didn't I kill him. Was it chance? Or fate? The dream fades then…and I never find out.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

Whatever,' Jack says, waving his hand, 'I'm sorry you hurt yourself, Salman. You control your own life but you don't want to live with it.' Painted that way, rendered in little swipes, Salman doesn't sound attractive to himself.

I have decided to escape, to defy the shogun. Today I will begin walking the road to hell. But you will choose your own path. So, soon you may be seeing heaven. Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball and you join your mother, in death. You don't understand my words, but you must choose. So… come boy, choose life or death.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

That's what happens when you free people from the restraints of time. They make their own rigid schedule.