Quotes About Choice

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there. Raspberry Jam

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

i could step off the end of this pier but i got shit to do and an appointment on tuesday to shed uninvited blood and tissue i'll miss you, i say to the river to the water to the son or daughter i thought better of i could fall in love with jersey at sunset but i leave the view to the rats and tiptoe back

long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has; that is why the gods are always young.

Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid, but the choice of a book presented some difficulties...

The women he had chosen, and who had, in one way or another, decided against him, had been more far-sighted than himself, and had discerned in his unremarkable courtship the prospect of a lifetime of boredom, though he had thought to provide them with everything that they desired. But they had desired an excitement which he could not provide. Now he recognized that they had been right to do so.

Only the fantasy of choice remained.

Owen had come along and I had fallen in love with him. I had not known then that it is not necessary to marry every man one loves. I know it now. Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that one can, and perhaps should, resist

she used to say she would drown herself in but because she didn't, because she died, after all, in bed, I felt she was still trying to get there. A person needs to choose his death.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

and Willie Nelson was singing "On the Road Again" on the jukebox. An infelicitous selection, if you ask me.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Don't be silly, Lillian," I said, waving my hand. "If she can play any kind of instrument, I want her. Just no accordions.

It was typical that now he was being offered what he'd dreamed of he couldn't make a decision.

And she wasn't eating anything. Not even a bit of toast or a biscuit. It always seems a waste to me, going out to a cafe, if all you choose is something you could have for much less money at home.

His family longed for him to be home though they would never say so. It was his choice, they said. He should do whatever made him happy. They were proud of the work he did. But the pressure was there, subtle and unspoken.

The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?