Quotes About Options

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

Accept or change; bitter or better, love or selfishness. These are the options in life that will define our character.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, so don't settle for a shark.

For a choice is always a choice among possible alternatives; and it is a rare agent for whom everything is possible. The special agony of this situation is that none of the possibilities is even harmless.

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

I had options, and I didn't have to decide right away. Which was good, because I still didn't know what I wanted. But maybe I had a place to be while I figured it out.

I am not untidy," I objected. "I merely surround myself with a plethora of possibilities.

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

The multitude of options American diners face on restaurant menus isn't just a smart business decision. It deliberately avoids offending all tastes, palates and dietary restrictions.

The human mind loves either/or choices. We prefer a choice of A or B. Yes or no. Chicken or beef. Simple choices give us a feeling of control, while open-ended choices give us a feeling of unease. Therefore we'd rather choose between than among.

Until your heart stops beating, Bella. Ill be here, fighting. Dont forget that you have options.

He nodded. "You're right. It's probably for the best." Bitterness rose in my throat. I hated things being for the best. They never really were. It was a phrase that sugarcoated the leftover crumbs of our options.

There are always choices. Some choices are just not easy to make.

Life is full of tough choices between less-than-perfect alternatives.

What these cases of success in the hard sciences have in common is that they really do lend themselves to a straightforward logical analysis: there is a limited number of options, and they are mutually exclusive. Just like logical trees work very well in classic Aristotelian logic (where the only values that can be attached to a proposition are true or false), so strong inference works well with a certain type of scientific question.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations

Read Emily Dickinson. Read Graham Greene. Read Italo Calvino. Read Maya Angelou. Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are Escape Routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

You always have a choice. Life is full of choices