Quotes About Choice

and I have always found that if things have a choice of directions, they are most likely to go downhill.

But before I could decide which choice to jump at, life intervened, as it usually does, and made the decision for me.

so the first inclination of the uncertain is to accept that which seems easy.

Imagine that the correct words had been chosen by those people who are in charge of our lives. A few well-though-out words and things might have been different. Unfortunately, they have chosen all the wrong words.

Which one I like better?" "That's the question, Mr. Tour Guide." I felt suddenly awkward, like I was being tested on something I hadn't studied for. I didn't really know which one I liked more. The only photos I looked at regularly were surveillance and crime scene shots. Aesthetics didn't count. Finally

Nobody ever chooses to be a victim.' The more I looked at this report, the more I wondered: What if somebody did choose to be a victim?

Mom wants me to be an engineer and scientist.

I went to the CD player, choosing some soft and soothing soprano sax, courtesy of the late Art Porter.

toss a weighted paper bag out.

Everyone should be allowed to follow their own conscience, Wainwright, when it comes to facing a moral dilemma. Bertrand Russell, no doubt, said Wainwright. Jesus Christ, actually, said George

To be allowed to pursue a career of his own choosing, and not just be expected to follow in his father's footsteps.

Virginia Fenwick is considering selling

vote tonight?" "I did not apply for

For the senior boys," he turned his attention to the back of the hall, "you don't have a moment to lose if you hope to be offered a place at the school of your first choice. Never settle for second best.

The most important concept about our economic future is that it is our choice and in our hands, both individually and collectively as citizens.

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

Eating is natural. Gaining weight is your choice.

Lefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.

free will is making a comeback. Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in.

To assert a belief in free will is to accept responsibility for our actions and to recognize the mind as "more or less a first cause, an unmoved mover," as the theorist Thomas Clark says: it is to hold the view that "we could have willed otherwise in the radical sense that the will is not the explicable or predictable result of any set of conditions that held at the moment of choice.

The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Greatness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

T]he cascade of discoveries in neuroscience and genetics has created an image of individuals as automata, slaves to their genes or neurotransmitters, with no more free will than a child's windup toy.

Carried to its logical limits, a system in which no one has a choice about what action to take is unworkable.