You Choose Quotes - Page 21

• Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

  Mira Grant

  Choices, Grace, May

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• True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

  Philippa Gregory

  Thinking, Agreement, Waiting

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Green, Firsts, Steps

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• Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

  John Green

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• Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Perfect, Fake, Ifs

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Inspirational, Writing, Names

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.34, Xist Publishing

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• A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Be careful what you choose: You may get it.

  Colin Powell

  May, Be Careful, Careful

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Issues, Lessons

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• But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.

  Amy Harmon

  Regret, Choices, Different

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• Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

  Michael Ventura

  Historical, Enemy, Suffering

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• Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!

  Patrick O'Brian

  Hands, Two, Differences

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• Help, and you will make a huge impact in the life of the street, the town, the country and our planet. If only one out of four of each one hundred of you choose to help on any given day, in any given cause, incredible things will happen in the world you live in.

  Tom Hanks

  Country, Impact, World

  Commencement Address at Vassar College, delivered 22 May 2005, Poughkeepsie, NY

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• You can be whoever you choose to become in the future, just do it. Just see it and visualize it and every day of your life project that about yourself.

  Lady Gaga

  Projects, About Yourself, Just Do It

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• When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

  Fred Astaire

  Trying, Experience, May

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• Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

  Sophie Marceau

  Actors, Sometimes, Being The Best

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• Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Path, Vocation

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• Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

  Debbie Ford

  Divorce, Use, Moments

  Debbie Ford (2009). “Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

  Brian Eno

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• You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Trying

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• I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?

  Laura Marling

  Girlfriend, Mean, Thinking

  "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  William James

  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Emotional, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• They don't make you what you are, you do. You are what you choose to be.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Decision, Decision Making

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• Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Love Is, Loving Someone

  "The Rescue". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2000.

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