Quotes About Choices

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer group at the outset of their careers, but on the cultural milieu which demarcates the changing role of music in early-eighteenth-century society.

We drew lots for the sleeping spaces," he pointed out, striving to keep a reasonable tone. Ulf shrugged petulantly. "Well, if I'd known I was going to be so close to the door, I would have drawn a different one." Hal gave up trying to be reasonable. He glared at Ulf. "Do you realize how abysmally stupid that statement is?" he demanded.

Our acts our Angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

to see her not merely as a bundle of stereotypes or as a convenient and tenuously linked series of myths, but as a whole woman whose choices added up and whose decisions made sense.

What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled—his path, his choices, and no looking back.

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Aquí hay muchas personas que no salen nunca. Depende de lo que hiciste para que te trajeran aquí. Por supuesto, también hay muchos que no quieren salir, aunque podrían si lo pidieran. Sólo que nunca lo piden

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

It is better to live rich than to die rich. SAMUEL JOHNSON

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.

Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow...

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

As C.S. Lewis observed in The Silver Chair, one book in the Chronicles of Narnia series: "Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with them.

every single decision you make - who your friends are, who you date, whether you decide to smoke or drink - has a consequence.

Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton; Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison; White Fur, by Jardine Libaire; and—oh, baby—Adultery and Other Choices, by Andre Dubus, who might be the writer Vivi loves most.