Quotes About Options

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Some like carrots, others like cabbage

How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed.

Free people have the most choices.

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Guys are like accessories. If you don't like how they turn out, get a new one.

Poetry -- literature in general -- is the major cultural source of vital options for those who find that their lives fall short of their highest hopes. Literature is, I believe, our best goad toward new beginnings, our best chance for what we might call secular rebirth... in literature there abide major hopes for human renovation.

Normally we create instance attributes by assigning them in class __init__ constructor methods, but this isn't the only option.

As usual in Python, it's important to understand fundamental principles like those illustrated in the prior section. Python's "batteries included" approach means you'll usually find precoded options as well, though you still need to know the ideas underlying them to use them properly.

Conflict is the essence of a novel. Conflict, conflict, and more conflict. Oh, and choices.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.