Quotes About Choice

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment.

Predisposition is not predestination. We humans are much, much more than our DNA.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

I was ready to lose everything for a hope I now knew was false. I now knew it was false, impossible, ruined already by my own hand, and still I had no choice

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

Because they're free. -They might look free, but they aren't. Believe me. You're free. -How am I free? -You're free to be modest. You're free to not smoke up. You're free to be here and listen and not respond to the nonsense that Hanna spouts. You're very calm, and you're very comfortable with yourself.

Saw I was evidently throwing myself into all hardships and distressed in my present undertaking. I thought it would be less difficult to lie down in the grave; but yet I chose to go rather than stay.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.

You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and fulfilling yes.

Deciding whom to love is an inherently emotional business.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

Complete freedom is as much curse as boon; freedom within strict and well-defined confines is, to me, ideal.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

Who we are is who we choose to be in this very moment.

After all, the object isn't to become so mentally strong that we can suffer through any experience; the object is to become so peaceful inside that we choose not to suffer when the pain comes.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.