Choices Quotes

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every...

In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from begi...

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those ch...

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and format...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our co...

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, wit...

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of ...

I've spent so much time these last years wondering what I'm supposed to be. A wife? A lover? A celib...

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his d...

We make tactless remarks because we wish to hurt, break our legs because we do not wish to walk, mar...

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building ...

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, ...

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving i...

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing...

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and unde...

I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make cle...

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one wit...

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was ther...

I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it m...

The world follows its own course. Each possesses his own thoughts, each treads his own path. So it i...

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. ...

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, a...

It is not our abilities that show who we truly are, it is our choices.

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, '...

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The realization of what would happen next settled gradually over Harry in the long minutes, like sof...

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - ...

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the sa...

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might...

For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrast...

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not nece...

Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the real...

Man is fully responsible for his nature, choices and lifestyle.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, o...

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our ...

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're...

It's one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does n...

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was...

Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy,...

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics det...

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. ...

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is sma...

You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts...

It ain't kin we? It's will we?

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice...

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have...

If you ever have to choose between loving two people, always pick the second. If you really loved th...

She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever...

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to clo...

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there ...

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise a...

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You...

It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring...

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you...

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on you...

But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can ...

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be st...

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we ...

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You c...

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be ...

What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if y...

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for ch...

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. ...

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of t...

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctua...

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and kno...

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their...

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...

There’s only one way to know if people are good or evil: look at the choices they make. We each cont...

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change...

What he had hoped for was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and ...

We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, eve...

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each...

My mom used to say, ‘Life isn’t fair,’“ said Shadow.“Of course she did,” said Wednesday. “It’s one o...

She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided,...

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say,And cast your words away upon the waves.Sail...

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should ...

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They...

Why, Reshi?"The words poured out of Bast in a sudden gush. "Why did you stay there when it was so aw...

She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular pat...