Jean Rostand Quotes

The difficulty in life is the choice.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

When you spend a lot of time, like I do, just standing around and waiting, or being moved from place to place, every minute gets consumed by something someone else has set up for you. And it's not like I'm always in a beautiful place wearing something gorgeous.

Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.

The feeling of having no choice or no say is a fear of mine, partly because the idea of loosening oneself from the burden and responsibility of choice and consequence is so intoxicating.

Choices are a very important part of our lives.

How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often.

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.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

Our people [Mormons] are free to live their life as they please. They have to make choices.

Telling a man to go to hell and making him go are two different propositions.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.

The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

I don't have anything in particular to achieve; I don't want to go any particular direction. I just want to take up the challenges of life as we go along.

As a person, I am totally obsessed with the choices and decisions we make in our lives and how they dictate the course of our lives. Seemingly random choices that we make end up defining everything.

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

I don't believe that we - and this holds true for both genders - have as many choices as we seem to like to think.

That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.