Quotes About Choice

I hope this doesn't come down to choosing between two of my best friends.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed.

It did not occur to me at that time to ask God to reveal his vision for my life. On my own, following my head rather than my heart, I chose the safe path.

The letter will tell you to write down ten things you want to happen, because that's the first step to getting what you want in life: deciding what that is. Some of those things will happen for you, some won't, and some will turn into things you don't want anymore" -Aunt Jenny

My main point is to show how so-called health values of therapy, hormonal treatment, and surgery have replaced ethical values of choice, freedom, and autonomy; how these same "health" values have diffused critical awareness about the social context in which the problem of transsexualism arises; how more and more moral problems have been reclassified as technical problems

Do what you want with life, you don't get another one. Never apologize, never explain. Stay light, stay free. Jealousy kills; it kills whatever it touches.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Race is not a barrier; it is a choice.

She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I'd like to make love to.

I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home.

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

The only reason my wife agreed to marry me is because Christian Bale wasn't around to propose to her.

But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won't do.

Of women who choose not to have children, most are undermothered and fear they won't know how. Sometimes they fear they will "mess up" their kids like they feel they have been messed up. (Although let's not forget that there are other important reasons someone may choose not to become a parent.)

We ought to be moved to choose the good not simply through a cold and gritty decision driven by our intellect or our will, but also by our heart.

It is necessary to understand the soul of the woman. All these things, which are meant to liberate the woman: premarital sex, contraception and abortion, have they liberated her or have they enslaved her?

No is easier to do, yes is easier to say. No is no to one thing. Yes is no to a thousand things. No is a precision instrument, a surgeon's scalpel, a laser beam focused on one point. Yes is a blunt object, a club, a fisherman's net that catches everything indiscriminately. No is specific. Yes is general.

Most people should miss out on most things most of the time.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.