Quotes About Options

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things really don't matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have.

Arme Leute können nicht wählerisch sein, oder? Bedeutet das auch, wer wählerisch ist, kann nicht arm sein?

It is important to note that the stress we feel as parents is not generated by our adult child with autism, but rather from the failings of the systems in place that are supposedly there to help us. There are caring people in the systems, yet often the lack of options and foresight and inability to plan ahead or provide options for our loved ones are accepted as normal by the systems in place.

However, Arlene's arrival had kind of wiped out my options. I

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

You don't have to choose between June Cleaver or Barbara Walters. There are miles of space between them.

he had given the Kaffir a choice

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

There are always options in life—and you may not have been aware of that up until now, because there often are not a lot of options in a dysfunctional family. Be open to other options and new possibilities as much as you can, and know that you can trust yourself to handle whatever comes up.

Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of the choices not for.

You can do anything, but not everything. - David Allen

Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. 'This is my last experiment,' wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. 'If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I'll have to be shown.

Before you get too giddy, remember therapy isn't going to come cheap." "What do you want to do? Sell one of the kids?" He grinned wryly. "No, I already looked into that. Ohio isn't one of the states where it's allowed." "So what are our options?" "We could tip some whale hunters to the location of your mom.

There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention. He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became. So, in the absence of better options, he stopped struggling.

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

When a writer has chosen a topic, he or she has really chosen numerous topics.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Between life's stimuli and our habitual responses exists choice.