Quotes About Choice

I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

Ä°lk günah 'içinizdeki as?l sizi' s?nrlamakt?r. Yapmay?n.

Aç olmad???m halde menüye bakt?m. bir menüye bakmayal? y?llar olmuÅŸtu. Menü bana günayd?n dedi, ben de ona günayd?n diyerek kar??l?k verdim. Hayat?m?z? menülerle konuÅŸarak geçirebiliriz doÄŸrusu.

those doughnuts are a lot better than having a mule kick you in the head, There was no argument there.

Toronto will always be like the flipside of a dream for me. I called heads but Toronto came up tails.

No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.

What would happen if you didn't do the thing you "have to" do?

If you find yourself regretting or resenting the past, or dwelling on it—is that the best choice as to how to be expending your energy right now? How about taking the point of view that you made the best choices you could make at the time, and turning your attention to the present?

We make the best choices we can, given who we are and what we know. To make better choices—know more!

One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, "Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?" Many times, the two are mutually exclusive!

It suggests that life is filled with opportunities to choose between making a big deal out of something or simply letting it go, realizing it doesn't really matter. If you choose your battles wisely, you'll be far more effective in winning those that are truly important.

It's part of a woman's hypergamous nature to always seek the best male that she could get.

As many men have observed, the wrong woman can ruin your life if you let her in it.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit themselves by choosing males possessing them. One way for a female to do this is to play hard to get for a long time, to be coy. Any male who is not patient enough to wait until the female eventually consents to copulate is not likely to be a good bet as a faithful husband.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination.

suppose the god who confronts you when you die turns out to be Baal, and suppose Baal is just as jealous as his old rival Yahweh was said to be. Mightn't Pascal have been better off wagering on no god at all rather than on the wrong god?

Admittedly Turing was not buried alive under a wall pushed over by a tank. He was offered a choice between two years in prison (you can imagine how the other prisoners would have treated him) and a course of hormone injections which could be said to amount to chemical castration, and would have caused him to grow breasts. His final, private choice was an apple that he had injected with cyanide.

Nós é que decidimos se nossa vida será significativa, plena e maravilhosa. E podemos fazer com que ela seja mesmo maravilhosa.

And if we have independent criteria for choosing among religious moralities, why not cut out the middle man and go straight for the moral choice without the religion?

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously . . .

How can we know whether the course of a life would have been changed by some particular alteration in its early history?

wanted to believe the Darwinian idea. I chose to believe it not because I think there was enormous evidence for it, nor because it had the full authority to give interpretation to my origins, but I chose to believe it because it delivered me from trying to find meaning and freed me to my own erotic passions.