You Choose Quotes - Page 5

• It's the family you choose that counts.

  Andrew Vachss

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• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Reality, Voice

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• The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Truth Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.177, Random House

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• I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.

  Miley Cyrus

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• Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

  China Mieville

  Art, Together, Humans

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• If you choose to be looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you are find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Expecting, Ready

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Emotional, Mirrors, Choices

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• I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me. "Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well, I want to make love to you. My goodness, Julian. With two such compelling alternatives, however will you choose?

  Tessa Dare

  Two, Making Love, Alternatives

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.32, Dell

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• But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self Esteem, Independence, Self Determination

  "Meditations".

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• The sun shine comes, you see the shine you see the color, when night comes you the stars you see the dark the blooming moon you choose a star you follow the star it comes in your dreams you follow stars once a light bug dies you see a new star you follow the star your dreams come true.

  Demi Lovato

  Dream, Stars, Dark

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• Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are.

  Michael Grant

  Leader, Stills, Laughed

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• There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

  Kris Radish

  Joy, Faces, Sun

  Kris Radish (2009). “The Shortest Distance Between Two Women”, p.235, Bantam

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• When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

  Philip Pullman

  Choices, Doing Nothing, Way

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.

  Cameron Dokey

  Pride, Names, Enemy

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Home, Bed

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.247, Penguin

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• You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

  Juliet Marillier

  May, Path, Helpers

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.82, Macmillan

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• The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Son, Principles, Add

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• The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Views, Mind, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Mar 24, 2011

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• …It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.246, Penguin

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• Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Remember You, Remembers You, Covenant

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2016

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• Why did you choose to stay here?" (...) "I don't know," he said. "It's as if there's more oxygen here.

  Paolo Giordano

  Oxygen, Said, Knows

  Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.283, Random House

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