Quotes About Choice

The mind generally does not compulsively continue to unearth additional options. It sacrifices concepts in order to reach a speedy decision.

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

She was one of those women who seemed to choose solitude and plainness over beauty, and anger over happiness.

because they listened to Black Sabbath." "Why didn't he get the injection table?

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

She started to talk. She had little to say about love, fidelity, or morals. She talked about money, and his failure to find work; and when she mentioned the lady of his choice, it was not as a siren who had stolen his love, but as the cause of the shiftlessness that had lately come over him.

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself," my sister Jack told me several times. "Put yourself in God's hands and you can't go wrong.

A bird who flies is special. You would never trap a bird who flies (218).

It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.

We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out-- when, in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.

I choose you, Max. -Fang

Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.' 'Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist-pig of you.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, 'cause I'm just funny that way.

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

A Poem By Maximum Ride How does one describe freedom, How can one call themselves free, How does one sleep at night knowing all the troubles that lay ahead, If one had a choice to be free or have freedom what does one pick, How does one even begin to describe the choices of being free, Freedom is choice, Freedom is happiness, Freedom is doing what you want, Freedom is to fly.

That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.

free will (noun): A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.

We couldn't know the future or how long it would last. We could only choose to be happy and alive right now.

darted in first, my pistol up. Lori came in behind me. I scanned the shitty little apartment quickly. Bedroom, bathroom, nothing. The window was open, and I muttered "Shit" as I wedged myself onto the fire-escape landing. It was a long way down. Cops with a thing about heights shouldn't climb around on fire escapes. But there was no choice.

You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.

But she definitely had my vote.