The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
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Related People are shaped by their emotions. That which profoundly affects them has a place in their hearts. SAIM .A. CHEEDA Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by th... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No one has free will until they are an adult, and by then the choices that were made for them, have ... J.D. STROUBE Don't you think people make their own choices in life?' 'They do, but in many cases their... FUMINORI NAKAMURA I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it... JESSICA SORENSEN Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the famil... ERIK ERIKSON Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing ... MICHAEL HAYDEN When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow. FERN NAITO When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. JERRY MARTIN People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than t... JANE RULE If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. THEODORE ROOSEVELT If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. JOHN WAYNE If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. JOHN WAYNE The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the gr... DAVID CLEMENT-DAVIES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES They know that they make their own choices. It's a series of bad choices that got guys here. We hope... DOUG KNIGHT If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices. DANIEL KAHNEMAN Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois. FRANCOIS You may control people physically by force, but you won’t change their hearts and minds—that req... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE As scientists become more aware of the relationship between food choices ... and health, more meal p... DR. MICKEY BIELAMOWICZ Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or a... J.E.B. SPREDEMANN As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White. STEPHANE ROLLAND by implying that pro-choice Americans have the same values as terrorists, Hughes insulted millions o... CAROLYN MALONEY Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their... CARL BECKER Theory of Choice:
Life is all about choices you make and the butterfly effect of these choices you a... DR. VINOD B. NAIR They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER You have to empower your employees to make their own choices and trust that they will make the right... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices. DAVID CRYSTAL Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or ... JANE AUSTEN When all is said and done, by what are we measured? By the body of choices we have made through toda... DONNA M THOMAS People's fates are simplified by their names. ELIAS CANETTI People's fates are simplified by their names. ELIAS CANETTI Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these ... JANDY NELSON The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The heart... GEORGE FETHERLING There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibil... DENIS WAITLEY There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibil... DENIS WAITLEY You don't control their minds, ma fifille, you control their hearts" - Cosette ALYS ARDEN They were reasonable, (considering) they were hit by a lot of things beyond their control. CHARLES BRADFORD The children, even when they're not participating as soldiers, are moved on or forced from their com... CAROL BELLAMY Every body has their taste in noises as well as other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or mo... JANE AUSTEN People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ... E. M. FORSTER People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, ... E.M. FORSTER is engaging and not preachy and allows children choices in making their own decisions. ELIZABETH WARD Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth KAYLAN PICKFORD No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are t... JIM BUTCHER The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER We can create a Heaven on Earth by being empathetic towards the suffering of others as well as by un... LATIKA TEOTIA I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we ... ELLE MACPHERSON Being alive isn't about breathing or being organic. Being alive means that you can freely make choic... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dep... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the... BARBARA HALL To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos... DAVID MCCULLOUGH People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own. BRENNA YOVANOFF People's fates are simplified by their names. ELIAS CANETTI How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well... ELENA FERRANTE And our people are winning the hearts and minds of the citizens, ... Iraqi people would run out and ... JEB HENSARLING Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear. JEFF RAINEY Everybody needs to decide this on their own, what their conscience dictates, what their hearts and m... RICHARD GEPHARDT We live in a world where we make choices every day and The Coke Side of Life encourages people to ma... MARC MATHIEU The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to cr... ROBERT FRITZ We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into... ANNA C. SALTER It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where th... HILLARY CLINTON The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL Never let sadness of the past or fear of the future, ruin the happiness in this moment. BJ MORIN Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to i... RAY BRADBURY But ultimate integration and functionality are not big factors in choices. Canadian companies aren't... WARREN SHIAU Life is supposedly filled with paths that enable unlimited choices, but that is a blatant lie. No on... J.D. STROUBE In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. AMBER FREY The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, an... LINDA FOLEY The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices
about results you want to creat... ROBERT FRITZ All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's such a thing as too much choice. If you give seniors a bunch of choices as opposed to a few,... DAVID LIPSCHUTZ In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every pers... POPE BENEDICT XVI In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppr... SUSAN MORRIS Jermaine came to make many choices in his life that simply broke our hearts because we knew that he ... DANIEL PELLETIER If they've made wise choices, they might have money left over, ... If they've made poor choices, it ... DEVON HERRICK When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she an... JEAN-MARIE LE PEN As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ANTISTHENES ANTISTHENES As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ANTISTHENES PINTO As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. ANTISTHENES I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices. MADONNA CICCONE When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except ... ECKHART TOLLE The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals. RALPH STEADMAN My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the ... MAAJID NAWAZ Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Choice, choices, choices! Choose rightly. Choose the things that brings you highest fulfillment. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians ... ERIC TEMPLE BELL As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic m... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable... J.D. SALINGER God intended the entire culture of Israel to learn and teach how to do justice in a way that shaped ... JESSICA NICHOLAS I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who ar... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Who you are today is the outcome of the choices you have made in the past. Choices that you will mak... VISHWAS CHAVAN People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greate... LUKASZ LANIECKI Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conqueror... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
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