Quotes About Choice

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

There's a small choice in rotten apples.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Man is both determined and self-determining.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Irrevocable as a haircut.

Now or never was the time.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

A dog has four legs but can't run on four paths at the same time.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.

Against abortion? Don't have one.

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision.

And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.

As a robot I could have lived forever. But I tell you all today I would rather die a man, than live for all eternity as a machine.