Quotes About Choice

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

We want women to have options and not be forced into somebody else's idea of what their beauty needs ought to be.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

In our world marriage was the best option for any woman. No girl ever chose to have a career unless she couldn't get a man. It was very much a tertiary life.

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren't ours and ours alone.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.

At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

Sometimes you do have to accept your second or third choice in order to avoid an outcome you consider to be even worse.

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know how they're going to go.

I'm very firmly of the belief that if we want different outcomes, then we're going to have to make some different choices.

Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.