Quotes About Choice

The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever's interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

the sweetest temptation could be that which was known to be the most foolish.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

Living is a thing you do now or never -- which do you?

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

Your destiny will always remain your destiny.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

But, if I were given my choice, I prefer the speech like the winter snows.

This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without being drawn by lot. The people all admired his courage and patriotism, and Aegeus finding that his prayers and entreaties had no effect on his unalterable resolution, proceeded to choose the rest by lot.

every time I am about to follow my heart, I am offered enormous temptation.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Polly Young-Eisendrath