Quotes About Choice

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

We love men. We just don't want to see them naked.

But obligation, I eventually saw, is not the same as commitment, and it's certainly not an acceptable reason to stick with something that isn't working

In every situation, at the beginning or end of the workday, you have a choice. You can look back or you can look forward. My advice: look forward. Always think about the next day. Don't go into the studio thinking, 'Hmmm, let's see what I was doing yesterday?' It takes more energy to twist yourself around and look back that it does to face forward.

There in a nutshell is the essence of creativity: There are a number of possibilities, but only one solution looks inevitable.

I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice. It's inevitable, which is why I have no regrets.

You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no.

there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation!

perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election?

I will stay. I chose you because i dont see a troubled crazy person i see a beautiful girl with potential and future. A person that could be my wife

Then I shared a favorite scripture, one that has guided me through life: The power of life and death lie in the tongue. "You can speak life or you can speak death," I went on. "I chose to speak life into my situation. I chose to use my imagination to take me higher. Not just in this life, but higher in Christ.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

là où il n'y a pas de choix, il n'y a pas non plus de place pour une vie morale quelconque.

On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.

Ce que l'extrême et l'ordinaire ont également en commun, c'est que, ici comme là, la majorité des individus opte pour les valeurs vitales, et quelques-uns seulement choisissent l'autre voie. Ou peut-être : la plupart du temps, chaque individu opte pour les valeurs vitales ; mais n'ignore pas pour autant les réactions morales.

In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.

Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Whether you chose right or left,or left than right. You have a choice, so chose the right one.

Happiness or unhappiness is often a matter of choice.

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.