972 quotes found
“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
“For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.”
“If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”
“Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.”
“There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.”
“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
“That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”
“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs a...”
“The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?”
“But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.”
“And [Thaler] noticed that when he had his fellow economists to dinner, they filled up on cashews, which meant they had less appetite for the meal. More to the point, he noticed that they tended to ...”
“We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.”
“The outcome of one’s life is determined by choice to obey kingdom laws”
“Perhaps the old man had chosen to look up through—or at least around—his problems while still smiling, knowing that a detour didn’t have to alter the destination, it merely changed the path.”
“Why give him a choice at all? You said yourself, we need everyone we can get. If this Nix guy is half of what you are, we can’t afford to let him go.”The answer is so simple, and it cuts me to bone...”
“To be or to do? Which way will you go?”
“The choice, as Eddie saw it, was as simple as it was brutal: get moving and keep moving or stand in one place long enough to start thinking about what all of this meant and simply die of fright.”
“I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself”
“You still don’t get it, Clark, do you?’ I couldhear the smile in his voice. ‘It’s not your choice.”
“Happiness is a choice. Don’t let the outside world choose it for you.”
