Quotes About Choice

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Did I choose you? Did you choose me? And what difference does it make? All that really matters, friend, is that we chose together.

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.

Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

What a fine weather today! Can't choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.