Quotes About Choice

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

You'll have to fish or cut bait. That's all there is to it. Let's pretend

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

There are two ways," he told me, "and they are love and not love. I choose love.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

Someone enjoying a higher level of Consciousness understands more, is not bound by past patterns of thinking and behavior, and thus has more freedom of choice and action.

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

As it turns out, the final frontier of freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude, and in the face of one's own mortality, the only conceivable choice is joy.

People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen.

And did she not have the courage to worship a man; had she chosen a woman.

There are those who stay at home and those who go away, and it has always been so. Everyone can choose for himself, but he must choose while there is still time and never change his mind.

For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind...