Quotes About Choice

I would come to learn that the alpha female can read every single bit of food you put into your body. Make a choice that'a going to keep you strong and fit for the pack and you will pass muster; make a choice that's the equivalent of chocolate cake in the human world and you'll wind up urinating in streams to disguise your scent, or else suffer the consequences.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Out decisions make us.

Your religion should help you make the decision if you find yourself in that situation. But the policy should exist for you to have the right to make it in the first place. When you say you can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a good thing. When you say I can't do something because your religion forbids it, that's a problem.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

If you had the chance, would you change what you did? We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one that really matters. I turn, so that I am staring square at you; so that you know, all my life, anything I've ever said or buried beneath silence was just for you. If I had the chance, I reply. I'd do it all over again.

If you chose to stop a loved one's suffering—either before it began or during the process—was that murder, or mercy?

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

Effective life management isn't about finding more time to fill; it's about recognizing you don't have to do anything you do not choose to do. Hiding a choice behind a "have to" is irresponsible. Everything filling the white space in your life is there because you chose to put it there. We always have the power to say, "No." We just need to be ready to live with the consequences.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Inaction is itself an action;

Real life happens in real time, and decisions have to be made in an instant.

Most people read drivel. That is their prerogative. The case can be made that it is better to read drivel than to read nothing, on the theory that people will eventually tire of garbage and move on to something more meaty, like trash.

I get the whole lost-your-parents thing. Been there. But that don't have to turn you stupid. That's a choice, like wearing green stretch pants.

It's one thing to wave at the Devil from afar, quite another to shake the bastard's hand.

You have free will, so you can ignore the idea, or you can decide to bring it into reality.

Act the part and you will become the part," and "Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

Beans run away with the prize for the healthiest carbohydrate choice.

This was my problem, and I had to solve it or live with the negative consequences. I chose to solve it.

Cheese is also a powerful inducer of acid load, which increases calcium loss further.89 Considering that cheese and butter are the foods with the highest saturated-fat content and the major source of our dioxin exposure, cheese is a particularly foolish choice for obtaining calcium.

Originally planning to go with a small house concept, we found it was illegal to build a house of less than nine hundred square feet. Why? By what authority can anybody tell me what kind of house I have to live in?

Deep down, very few of us want safety to suffocate freedom.

incorporated what he chose