Quotes About Options

Freedom comes with the impossibility of choosing.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

Just because you're inclined to do something one way doesn't mean that's the 'right' way.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

I think, for many people, they think there's one giant promotion, and that's all that there is. It must be the best. But as they expand their palate and their horizons, they realize that, oh, there's other wrestling out there. They might not necessarily like it more, but it's an option now.

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

We all must pay, but we can choose that for which we pay.

You can choose what you do; you can't choose what you like to do. You can do anything you want, but you can't do everything you want.

Although people believe they like to have lots of choice, in fact, having too many choices can be discouraging.

False Choice Loophole: This is the loophole-seeking strategy I most often invoke. I pose two activities in opposition, as though I have to make an either/or decision, when in fact, the two aren't necessarily in conflict.

I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.

Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.

There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.

desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

People say college opens the world to you. In some ways, of course, that's true. But for the most part, it does the opposite. You come in thinking you can do anything when you leave. Your options are endless. Point of fact though, your options dwindle every day you're here. By the time you graduate, again, reality has splash-landed.

You can read all the pro-choice, pro-adoption, pro-life arguments—over the years, Olivia had ad nauseam—but there was one basic truth: Getting pregnant is the ultimate fork in the road. Whatever you choose, you will always wonder about the path not taken.

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.

One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking about freezing my eggs.

One of the toughest things about life is making choices. I had a hard time saying 'no' to a bunch of other excellent possibilities.

Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.