Quotes About Choice

I can't help feeling that the good books were purchased because they were talked of as being popular, and the trash was bought because it suited best.

Oh, Mary said, life is mostly just what happens. Choice or chance or fate, gods or not. Like it or not. Things happen, we do what we think is in our best interests or just convenient, and then we live with the consequences.

Whether you pick well or poorly, the act of choosing carries grief. Leaves you wondering, years later, what life might have been had you chosen differently. . . . Or even wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future

God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." Viktor Frankl (1984) Author of Man's Search for Meaning

Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

Where do you want to go? was his responce. I don't know Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

person condemned himself or herself by choosing not to believe God's Word or by refusing His grace.

crisis of the will. When a darkened mind chooses to remain in darkness, no one is to blame but the individual making that choice.

Gone were the days when Americans were forced to pick one of three nightly news broadcasts. Now there are so many outlets that we suddenly have the ability to find the source of news that makes us the least uncomfortable.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

As humans, we are really bad at envisioning the counterfactual—what might have happened if different choices had been made.

others are accepted at a highly selective school but choose to attend a less selective college or university instead.

we have a treatment group (those students who attended highly selective colleges and universities) and a nonequivalent control group (those students who were talented enough to be accepted by such a school but opted to attend a less selective institution instead).

start. It occurs to me that both in my dreams and in my waking life there exists the same question: What now? Something happens or nothing happens, and either way, I have to decide what to do next. There is no end to it. Well, no, there is one end to it, and that revelation leads me to this conclusion: "What now?" is the definition of life.

Why? She asked in a confused whisper. Out of all the women in the world, why did you choose this mortal? Because fate drove me to you.

Don't you have something plain and wholesome, like scotch or bourbon?

De gustibus non est disputandum.

But on several occasions when the opportunity had been there and all that had been required of her was to say yes, she's said no instead. Something of great magnitude had been lost, some fundamental ability within her had shut down for good, leaving her incapable of risking commitment. (less)

Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

What about your constitutional right to bear arms, you say. I would simply point out that you don't have to exercise a constitutional right just because you have it. You have the constitutional right to run for president of the United States, but most people have too much sense to insist on exercising it.