Quotes About Choice

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice--any choice will be the right one.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness begins with life, and life begins at conception.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

To be able to do and to abstain from doing, is to be twice able.

To think is to say no.

Somos subjugados porque concordamos e entregamos nossa liberdade por uso do nosso livre-arbítrio. Não se trata de natureza, não é sina ou destino, mas a vontade dos homens de se curvarem diante do poder. A servidão é escolha, e, naturalmente, escolha voluntária.

C'est le peuple qui s'asservit, qui se coupe la gorge, qui, ayant le choix ou d'être serf ou d'être libre, quitte la franchise et prend le joug, qui consent à son mal, ou plutôt le pourchasse.

La diferencia que existe entre los dioses y los demonios depende sobre todo del lado en que uno se encuentre en ese momento.

one of the great things about our country is that you get to believe or not believe in anything you want.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.

When the authorities disagree among themselves regarding the correct approach to psychological problems, where does the troubled person turn for help? In view of the opposed and apparently irreconcilable views represented by the different schools, he faces a serious dilemma: He is trapped between choosing a therapist blindly and trusting to luck or trying to cope with his psychological difficulties by himself.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

But yes, you can imagine, you must try. Nothing stands between us and atrocities but words, so there is no choice but to try and imagine.

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

What I'm praying is that you will choose those beautiful possibilities over any self-annihilating alternatives. My whole life on earth has been the weaving of a single powerful spell. The best part of all my magic was loving you." (as spoken by the character Valerie Hyerman)

Life doesn't walk away, we do.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.