Quotes About Choice

No matter what your chosen profession, be prepared for opportunity and be willing to take it—your destiny may depend on it.

Like a voter's face saying, I may not like you, but I'll vote for you anyway because you might give me something I want.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day ' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

You were protecting yourself. You wrapped yourself in armor and pretended to be invulnerable. Growing up inside that armor twisted you a bit out of true, but it doesn't matter. The essentials are all there." She searched my face. "The armor's getting too small, Aud. You have to choose.

Love wasn't a state change. Romance might be, and lust, and like, but they were just the preconditions. Love was the choice you made; day in, day out.

Light of the world. This was what she knew. This was who she was. Her wyrd had been before she was. She chose this path, this place, because she had always chosen.

People could not be made to change. It had taken her a long time to learn that. People had to want to change themselves.

She could speak if she chose, but she was not ready to choose because she did not understand.

I learnt that pain is only a message. You can choose to ignore the message. Your body can do a great deal more than it wants you to know.

Not that I'm sure I want to have a child, you know? We've enough to deal with, with Jink's two. But it would be nice to have the choice. It would make me feel as though I belong.

Hild watched them and the other not-yet-girdled girls-Cille and Leofe, who were already meant for each other, and half a dozen younger-and wondered when her mother might choose her gemæcce and who it might be.

Man's freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

To find oneself at the mercy of the people's whims, thanks to universal suffrage, is what liberalism calls the guarantee of freedom.

The correct use of liberty can consist in adhering to a destiny, but my liberty consists in being able to refuse to do that. The right to fail is an important right of man.

There is nothing more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an "ethical dilemma".

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

Whoever dares to ask that the moment stop and time suspend its flight surrenders himself to God; whoever celebrates future harmonies sells himself to the devil.

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence "Freedom," but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

Today, I choose life! Tomorrow, well it is not here yet.

What if you could be anything or anybody you choose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.