Quotes About Choice

It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

Perhaps that was why she was sure she had to go to Vigor Church and on to where Alvin was. Because fear told her to stay, but hope told her to go.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.

You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: "Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?" A thousand. None of them good enough.

Which one's in the main theater? I don't know. I just work here part-time to pay for my organic breathing lessons. Do you have any dice? I asked, and then realized I was going about this all wrong. This was quantum theory not Newtonian. It didn't matter which theater I chose or which seat I sat down in. This was a delayed-choice experiment and David was already in flight.