Quotes About Choice

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

in art, we do not run to keep up with random moments, we select & create the moment occurring forever:

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

But we don't get to choose what sticks. How many times I have run my fingers along a picket fence and thought, This! I will remember this moment always! and all that remains is the memory of a desire to hold on to a memory.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

September] 27th [1862] If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced.

Mensen zijn even gelukkig als ze besluiten te zijn.

Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.

confronted with a choice between the pollution of Maurras and the pollution of tourism, the intellectuals chose to remake the emptiness rather than abide with the many.

Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.

Can I give her a choice about when to do something, rather than insisting upon "right now." ("Do you want to take your bath before your TV show or right after?")

Can I offer a choice about how something is done? ("Do you want to take your bath with your doll or your boat?")

woman, Lucia. Listen to me. A woman is not like a man. She doesn't get to choose. She follows her heart, and that's what makes the map

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

The world can ask you to participate, but it's a day-today decision if you want to agree to that proposal.

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

Il mondo può anche chiederti di partecipare, ma la decisione di accettare la proposta viene presa di giorno in giorno.