Make Choices Quotes

i could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. but we can go on loving them, just the same. it isn't a matter of comprehension. it's forgiveness.
- Jodi Picoult

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.
- Jodi Picoult

As a reader, I could put on someone else's shoes and live through his adventures, borrow his individuality and make choices that I didn't have at home.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.
- Lauren Bacall

But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices - even if it has nothing to do with them.... And what is the sense in feeling guilty about making different choices than our mothers and the other women before us? Our mothers did the best they could with what they had available to them. Our choices, if different from theirs, are not a denouncement of theirs.
- Jennetta Billhimer

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
- Selma Blair

I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.
- Neal Shusterman

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
- Ken Burns

But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
- Earl Butz

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
- Jonathan Coe

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
- Penelope Lively

If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.
- Robertson Davies

It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.
- Geena Davis

The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
- Anita Dunn

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...
Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?
- Andrea Dworkin

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
- Wayne Dyer

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
- Gayle Forman

Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life.
- Erich Fromm

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.
- Neil Gaiman

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
- Andy Garcia

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
- John Gardner

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
- David Gemmell

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.
- Tess Gerritsen

I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
- Danny Glover

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters - some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous.
- Richelle E Goodrich

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.
- Jeff Gordon

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.
- Kristin Hannah

Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don't understand that the culture really isn't offering us all of these options there still are very strong pressures to conform. We have to step outside the culture to be able to make choices that will really give us what we want. But we lack the psychic mechanisms to do this, to really choose.
- Dalma Heyn

Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.
- Stephen Hopkins

Actors make choices for different reasons.
- Stacy Keach

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
- Ashton Kutcher

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
- Brandon Lee

I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.
- Paul Lepage

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.
- Matthew Lillard

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
- Mike Mccready

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
- Mary Tyler Moore

Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological processnothing more?
- Wes Moore

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.
- Anne M Mulcahy

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.
- Tom G Palmer

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
- Fred Rogers

There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel of people we trust.
- Howard Schultz

Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.
- Richard G Scott

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
- Lisa See

It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you.
My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time.
- J Sterling

The thing is, you make choices. You do some things and you don't do others and in the end there's not much point in asking what different choices might have gained you, and lost you, unless you have a time machine. You become those choices, you embody them...
I'd known I couldn't stay, just as I'd known years before I couldn't be with him, even as I'd gone on pretending I had a choice. I was who I was, and I wanted what I already had.
- Leah Stewart

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.
- Lusia Strus

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
- Taylor Swift

I guess we all make choices as to how we want to live, right?
- Chris Ware

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.
- Zoe Weil

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
- Margaret Weis