Jim Butcher Quotes about Choices

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There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

There's always, always a choice. My options might really, truly suck, but that doesn't mean there isn't a choice.

Jim Butcher

Mean, Choices, Might

Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.124, Penguin

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Jim Butcher

Anger, What Matters, Choices

Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Jim Butcher

Strong, People, Choices

Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?

Jim Butcher

Eye, Destiny, Choices

Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.174, Penguin

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

Jim Butcher

Good Life, Exercise, Choices

Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where you’re able to make a choice. It’s the choice that counts.

Jim Butcher

Choices, May, Matter

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

Jim Butcher

Hero, Tyrants, Choices

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

Jim Butcher

Choices, Enemy, Stronger

Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.144, Penguin

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

Jim Butcher

Giving, Choices, Political

Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.258, Penguin

Jim Butcher Quotes about Choices

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