Quotes About Choice

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Better be happy than wise.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

One white foot - buy him: Two white feet - try him; Three white feet - look well about him; Four white feet - go without him.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths.

I have no brand loyalty to toothpaste. It's absolutely a different brand every tube.

We should at least make sure that patients are given the opportunity to opt out of spending their final days in a hospital, hooked up to tubes and running up enormous bills.

Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?'

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.