Quotes About Choice

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

I have two choices: Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

I did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, 'I'm not doing it again. It could be something bad.'

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?

Parents should be allowed to choose which cable or satellite channels - sources of the most extreme content - come into their homes.

The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.