Quotes About Choice

they know they are in the Navy – they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' 'You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' 'No, no, it is not quite that, neither.

What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

As you know very well,' said Stephen, 'I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy. But I too am a naval officer, brother; long, long ago you taught me that anyone nourished on ship's biscuit must learn to choose the lesser of two weevils. On

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It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

Any time you want die, ask me, she replied.

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

The rest of the world was there for her to take at any moment she wished it, but she always rejected it in favour of her own familiar little cosmos.

The need is not always the call.

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice. And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see, your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment and shining in its endless beauty.

This is her home now...of her own free will.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.

If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I'd take the first option. If I had children, it would arguably be immoral not to. It's absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty.

if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

People generally like the idea of being able to buy into Medicare, but not the idea of being required to give up private insurance if they're happy with it.)

We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

pain is fact; suffering is optional

her father's generation must be the last generation of English people who would have such a choice. War or no war, it was all coming to an end, and the end could not come neatly. There would be people who had to be victims of the fact that it could not. She herself was surely one of them

the past had other possibilities, and so do we today.

Gringo, she could have made you happy!" "I would have made my wife very unhappy.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

The woman went to a table at the side and selected a ghoulish picture the size of a playing card. "How much?" "What you wish." I gave her some pesos, saying, "I'll come back." "This"—she tapped the picture—"will keep you safe.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.