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Quotes About Choice

Though I'd wanted to wear sequinned flip-flops, I'd worn boots and switched the plain white ties for pink lace because, uh, the pink were sturdier.
~ Gena Showalter
You're going to have to settle on one eventually. Why not save us both the hassle, close your eyes and point. Whoever you're pointing at will be our winner." "I've played that game once before. Ended up--" Paris shuddered. "Never mind. It's not good to wander down that particular memory trail. So no. Just no.
~ Gena Showalter
Love is more than an emotion. It's a choice. Feeling love is one thing. Showing love is quite another.
~ Gena Showalter
Fate is an excuse, a way to remove blame and therefore guilt for poor decision making. Free choice decides the outcome of your life, not fate.
~ Gena Showalter
Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a noose.
~ Gena Showalter
Poor guy, she thought with a shudder. Clearly he had no idea the crappy hand he'd been dealt. If she had to choose between being an angel and a dog, she'd choose the dog. They, at least, were respectable" Bianka of Lasyter
~ Gena Showalter
Stupid. Put your hope in the right thing, and it would be a lifeline. Put your hope in the wrong thing, and it would be a noose.
~ Gena Showalter
Feelings fluctuated, changing because of circumstances and a million other factors. Love was a choice. A commitment to put someone else first, to give rather than take, to protect and never harm. pg 448
~ Gena Showalter
When you step toward a dream, you step away from a regret
~ Gena Showalter
the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left...
~ Gena Showalter
He who takes up the sword perishes by the sword. He who refuses to take up the sword perishes on the cross.
~ Gene Edwards
Microsoft, still has a culture that if a developer ever has a choice between working on a feature or developer productivity, they should always choose developer productivity.
~ Gene Kim
It's like the free puppy,
~ Gene Kim
Paige might be able to stop working. But is it worth having to deal with
~ Gene Kim
Life is what you make up of it.
~ Gene Oliver
Those who are able to receive and embrace The Wonderful Dharma Flower Sutra, Having given up the pure land, Have been born here out of sympathy for the living. Know that such people, Free to be born where they want, Chose to be in this evil age To teach the unexcelled Dharma everywhere.
~ Gene Reeves
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
~ Gene Simmons
Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war.
~ General Vincent Brooks
all of us who are sealed to the Library are people who have chosen this way of life because we love books. None of us wanted to save worlds. I mean, not that we object to saving worlds..." She shrugged, picking up her teacup again "We want books. We love books. We live with books.
~ Genevieve Cogman
And if she'd been able to choose her options a few hours ago, being trapped in a dead vampire's private study with an angry Fae would not have been one of them.
~ Genevieve Cogman
We are what we make ourselves
~ Genevieve Cogman
Mother, please, hear me out. If there's something I've learned over the last few years, it's that everything people do is important. I happen to have chosen this particular thing to do with my life, and I was lucky enough to have the choice.
~ Genevieve Cogman
No, refusal is an option. It's just that refusal comes with consequences. If you make a choice, then you're responsible for the consequences of that choice.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Tutti noi siamo vincolati alla Biblioteca, siamo persona che hanno scelto questa vita perché amano i libri.
~ Genevieve Cogman