Quotes About Choice

a life we didn't choose, chose us

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.

Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game

What if, that afternoon in my office, I had stood and risked fatherhood? Offered him a pair of sheltering arms? Would it have been enough to keep him from going down there and doing what he did? What if? What if? What if? ...

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master...

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

I have distanced what is behind me for good reasons, And call any thing close again when I desire it.

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up that you are in love. If you don't make up your own life, who's going to make it up for you? It's bad enough when you die and everybody can make up their own stories about you. —Mr. Hooft

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

W)hen you're playing with fire you've got to deal with the heat...And fire ain't particular about who it burns.

If I had to choose between justice and disorder, on the one hand, and injustice and order, on the other, I would always choose the latter.

But when a boy was born—on February 24, 1955—the designated couple decided that they wanted a girl and backed out.

Abandoned. Chosen. Special. Those concepts became part of who Jobs was and how he regarded himself.

finally decided on Integrated Electronics Corp. That wasn't very thrilling, either, but it had the virtue that it could be abridged—as Intel.

We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android.

But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.

It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do," he said. "That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.

A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

If I were a young man again and had to decide how to make a living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher," he intoned to Theodore White of the Reporter magazine. "I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope of finding that modest degree of independence still available.