Quotes About Choice

Damn it, I can't believe I'm going to let a choice in my life that's this major be dictated by OCD." This is assertive Relabeling.

In other words, what Libet was saying is that you really can't decide or determine what will initially grab your attention—your brain does. However, his research also indicated that once your initial attention is grabbed, you can determine whether you keep your attention focused on that object (and act on it) or veto it based on the principle of Free Won't.

My idea of how choice should have developed was not a privacy notion, not a doctor's right notion, but a woman's right to control her own destiny, to be able to make choices without a Big Brother state telling her what she can and cannot do.

Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose.

While I'm happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, "Hoo-boy, that's permanent.

Anything entering or exiting any orifice on your body is your choice. I don't get a say; I don't want a say. It's that simple.

I decided to bypass parenthood. In the 1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it. I knew early on that children weren't in my plans.

Women ask me all the time if I feel like I made a mistake. This is rude. Of course, the best response to this question comes from Claire Underwood in House of Cards. When asked, "Do you ever regret it, not having children?" Claire answers, "Do you ever regret having them?

Were we happier when we had only three channels? We all have the opportunity to consume solely the shows and news broadcasts that align with our views. Everything is so specialized now that we're given the ability to actively shield ourselves from anything that might challenge our set thoughts. What if we're less likely to consider opposing viewpoints because we can simply choose to isolate ourselves from them?

1970s, only one in ten women was childfree; today the number is one in five.169 Yet when I mention my choice, I've had moms look at me like I'm defective, or a unicorn, or a defective unicorn. Keep your pity; I don't need it.

We aren't happy by accident. This is a conscious choice, one that takes daily action.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party. I suspect no one is coming to save us; we can only save ourselves.

Your life is your party. You get to choose how you invite people and experiences and things into it.

Crean stepped around her desk and motioned toward the door. Now Nadine's skin prickled with anticipation. This is how it begins. Rationalizing. Telling herself that she had no choice, when deep down hunting killers hiding in plain sight was exactly what she'd always wanted to do—if she were only brave enough. But the prospect scared her, brushing so close to what she most feared.

Bethany Martin, another Hope College senior, put it like this: If i could have equality and fulfillment with a woman, but I couldn't with a man - then why wouldn't I choose a woman?

At the end of the day, feminism is not about what choice you make, it's about having the ability to make a choice.

It's painful to be the one not chosen," she murmured to Father Ryan, watching the younger pair. "Even when you acknowledge, deep down, that the choice was the right one, it hurts to think that the one you love prefers someone else.

They always think if they married someone else, their lives would have turned out differently

What they don't get is that if they hadn't chosen their current partner, they would have wound up with the same guy wearing different pants

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

Would she hit a dog to get great sex?

The thing about love is, you don't get to choose," Suze said. "You just wake up one day and there it is, sitting at the foot of the bed, going 'nyah, nyah, gotcha,' and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

What she did speak of was freedom, the ability to come and go as she pleased and, most importantly, to climb. Jim, she felt, was the man who could give her the keys to that independence.