Quotes About Choice

I made the choice, but it was also fate.

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Better the devil that you know than the one that you don't.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [ Commencement Address , Wellesley College, 1996]

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

But now remember, my dear. Don't try so hard. You'll see. In life you move toward the things you like and away from what you don't," Gretchen said. "It's that easy?" I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I could feel her weight like determination. "Yes, it's that easy," she said. Then she laughed. "The hard part is to just keep moving.

You could do anything, anything you want with your life.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Fate is a girl with scissors

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. 10

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

Sharks are more "natural" than life rafts-at least according to vulgar understanding-but, if forced to dive off a sinking ship and swim for my life, I'd rather meet a life raft than a shark! I daresay that radical environmentalists would share this view if the choice were actually forced upon them.2

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

I've gone and hired myself out. I've hired myself out to Death.

También la religión, como la filosofía, debe convertirse en una opción de vida, debe transformarse en una manera de vivir. Así, ninguna religión y ninguna filosofía podrán nunca reivindicar la posesión de una verdad absoluta, válida para todos los seres humanos. Porque creer que se posee la única y sola verdad significa sentirse con el deber de imponerla, también por la fuerza, por el bien de la humanidad.

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