Quotes About Choices

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I'm deciding what to wear, I don't run out of options. I love shopping!

I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.

Diversity definitely makes the best wardrobe - you want to look in and see a range so you can always dress for your mood.

I have no idea what to wear; Nicolas Ghesquiere has made me a wardrobe for every circumstance.

I loved all the wardrobe choices that were made on 'Gotham.' I feel like I always looked fantastic, very streamlined.

When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it's meaningful, then it's sustainable - and a meaningful life is a longer life.

I love Mayor Pete. I've always liked Joe Biden. I like Elizabeth Warren.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can 'have it all' has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.

English women would rather go out and buy a washing machine than shop for clothes.

You can't walk away without also walking towards.

There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.

First, I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply. Second, and more important: the body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.

You, too, did what was easiest. Don't let that be all you do.

Frightening, isn't it? That something I decide today impacts future generations. Beyond my own flesh and blood.

What can I get you guys?" Another lie, maybe?

Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together. p 251

Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't. There are occasionally words my characters choose that I wouldn't utter in my mother's presence. But when I was sixteen, or twelve, hanging out with my friends? That was different. For a story to feel real, I have to respect what a character would really do or say.