Quotes About Choice

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

He had simply made up his mind to go some time before, and that anyone looking for excuses to leave can always find them.

poor, or take a little chance

I submit that we are not arguing what is or is not good business. We are arguing the choice of liberty or tyranny. Courage or cowardice!

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.

I must choose between despair and Energy??I choose the latter.

I would have borne it as I would bear death if fate was in that humour: but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you.

Sometimes you wonder, I mean really wonder. I know we make our own reality, and we always have a choice, but how much is preordained? Is there always a fork in the road, and are there two preordained paths that are equally preordained? There could be hundreds of paths where one could go this way or that way -- there's a chance, and it's very strange sometimes.

Turn left at Greenland....

Cats could follow human instructions if they wanted to, but they don't.

Some psychologists have believed we are conditioned by what happened to us in childhood—in essence laying the blame on parents. But as Christians, we believe that we decide how we will react to what happens to us. We ourselves are responsible.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

All readers are good readers, when they have the right book.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents.

I am going to provide school choice and put an end to common core and bring our education local.

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.