Quotes About Choices

Worried about getting a life? Forget that. Get a lifestyle .

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

See, being a grown-up is all about priorities, Typo. It's all about deciding what's important to you, because it can't all be. You can't be a grown-up and a perfect person at the same time.' 'What do you know about it? You're sixteen years old.' 'I was raised by grown-ups. I know more about grown-ups than I ever wanted to know.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

Have you made your selections?" Um, yeah, Gray thought. I'll have the total body meltdown with a side of what-the-hell-was-I-thinking. She, evidently, will be having the sex-goddess pot pie.

What parts of this life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living?

Would you rather have food or dental work? Pay your mortgage or your electric bill? Make a car payment or buy medicine? Cover rent or student loans? Purchase warm clothes or gas for your commute?

life are you willing to give up, so you can keep on living? Most who face this dilemma will

These indignities underscore a larger question: When do impossible choices start to tear people—a society—apart?

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

By erasing any nuance and complexity about porn and sexuality, the virginity movement gives young women only two choices of who they can be sexually: sluts or not sluts. While the first choice doesn't seem attractive, I can guarantee you that most young women are going to go with the option that allows them to have sex. And there's no in-between identity for young women who are making smart, healthy choices in their sexual lives.

My father took me aside one day soon after and told me this: The things you do in your twenties are just things you do. But as you approach thirty what you do starts to become who you are. And there are some things you do not want to be forever.

There were so many items on the menu that Cunard felt obliged to print a separate sheet with suggested combinations, lest one starve from befuddlement.

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!

This is how we understand depressive psychosis today: as a bogging down in the demands of others—family, job, the narrow horizon of daily duties. In such a bogging down the individual does not feel or see that he has alternatives, cannot imagine any choices or alternate ways of life, cannot release himself from the network of obligations even though these obligations no longer give him a sense of self-esteem, of primary value, of being a heroic contributor to world life even

Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures, she said. It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.

But why did I ever leave Tom's mother in the first place? You'd better not think about that, he told himself.

He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences.

Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.