Quotes About Options

I told him of how, almost thirty years before, my parents had narrowed their choices of where to take up practice to either Athens, Ohio, or Hancock, Michigan, in the upper peninsula.

Given a choice, people wriggle out, and those choices are not offered equally.

he had a wide range of choices for work.

No one was thinking of any better options

And they missed out on treatments that they might have preferred.

Most doctors, taking seriously the idea that patients should control their own fates, lay out the options and the risks involved.

What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

It was a salad bar of phobias

Freedom was what we had. Nobody told us when to go to bed. Nobody told us to do our homework. Nobody told us we couldn't drink two six-packs of Budweiser and then throw up in the Maytag. So why did we feel so trapped? Why did I feel like I had no options in my life when it seemed that options were the only thing I DID have?

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

Adams came of age, too, at a time when the Massachusetts economy was markedly on the skids. Plenty of other young men stumbled in finding their footholds. On leaving Harvard shortly after Adams, a future colleague would try his hand as a schoolmaster. Miserable, he sailed off as a merchant, later as a whaler. He was soon back in Boston. In a patched gown, he served briefly as a chaplain. Out of options, he turned to the law.

There are no answers, only choices.

European demographer Anton Kuijsten comments that rather than ordering from "the standard life course menu, as people used to do," an individual now "composes his or her history à la carte." And marriage, "the obligatory entrée" during the 1950s, "has become the optional dessert.

If you're reading these words, you won today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on, fight back, get out, break up, call, ask her or him out, write that book, write that song, listen to the music, take the drive, take the chance, and live. Whatever strategy you choose, you win.

Se está lendo estas palavras, você VENCEU hoje. Está aqui. Está vivo. Tem opções. Pode se livrar de uma situação ruim. Seguir em frente. Reagir. Sair. Terminar. Convidar ela (ou ele) para sair. Escrever aquele livro. Compor aquela música. Ouvir a música. Assumir a direção. Aproveitar a oportunidade. E viver. Não importa a estratégia que escolher, você VENCE.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words, you WON today, You are here. You are alive. You have options. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.

I am faced then with two options:  a) a nightclub filled with the rich, beautiful and famous or b) an early night alone in bed with a book.  Never has any decision been easier. The book was gripping.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You CAN, of course... but you don't have to.

It came to him (and with the force of a revelation) that life was basically one long SAT test, and instead of four or five choices, you got dozens.

Don't try to give me a limited amount of choices. I make my own.

Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable.