Quotes About Choices

overload. Too much, too much, too much! Why were there so many alternatives? So many different outcomes to be considered?

There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

They could also have given a long lecture on the new type of right-wing crusade that reduces democracy to the ballot box, and how this subjugates political choices to fears of hunger, unemployment and, ultimately, social insecurity. And when democracy shrinks to being no more than a voting process, then the destiny of a country becomes inseparable from its single ruler's political existence.

The answer for Christians in the age of outrage is not some silver-bullet study that will give a new piece of knowledge. Rather, it begins with looking at our habits, the things that we love every day through our choices and actions.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

rejected the life everyone expected of him. "My luck was running out," he said in a 1984 interview for The Paris Review. "I was going to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed.

This is the undertow of black politics: traumatic memories that cling to our choices like ghosts who can't find peace as white America refuses to change again. Like Baldwin, we have to bear witness to it all and tell the story of how we got here—and then, just maybe, we can muster the resolve and will to push this damn rock up the hill again.

He didn't want to be a sucker, but he didn't want to be alone. Everything ached and all the choices felt wrong.

Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.

What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.

Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?" With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?

Pero que en las decisiones más trascendentes de la vida suele pasar que las distintas opciones son atractivas, y tienen puntos a favor. Y eso nos lleva al pantanoso territorio de las dudas. Las peores disyuntivas son las que nos presentan alternativas que deseamos, pero que se excluyen recíprocamente.

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

Sadly, many people spend their entire lives focusing on the wrong questions. They may pursue money, when they really want happiness. They may pursue the respect of people whose favor is really not worthy of being sought.

28 Flavors.

We are all manufacturers — some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses.

Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.

All of my friends from school grew up and settled downAnd they mortgaged off their livesOne thing's not said too much, but I think it's trueThey just get married 'cause there's nothing else to do

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.