Quotes About Choice

We need to make a decision, no matter what it is.

Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way.

Im in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Of all the places you could go, I just thought youd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know.

Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you cant hold your liquor, better quit right now.

Thats why I pick and choose. I dont get shit confused. I got a small circle. Im not with different crews. We walk the same path, but got on different shoes. Live in the same building, but we got different views.

Dont leave something good to find something better. Once you realize you had the best, the best has found better.

Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, itd be nice if you just take it.

As far as liquor goes, Im a hennessy man.

We all choose our own paths, Harry thought. We can't choose them for other people.

Just try to understand that sometimes it is better to see a thing destroyed, rather than ruined.

When all the options are wrong," he muttered to himself in the darkness, "what does it matter which one I choose?

When you make an absolute statement, you assume a sense of personal integrity based on a pretense of moral objectivity, which exists only as a faulty heuristic to arrive at an easy conclusion, and deny yourself the responsibility of choice - it's more convenient not to acknowledge your freedom and settle for a less desirable outcome on the grounds that you had no choice, rather than risk acquiring the less desirable outcome by your own will, regardless of the possibility for a better one.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

Commenting on an early paper by the Nobel laureate Gary Becker, the economist James Duesenberry famously quipped that "economics is all about choice, while sociology is about why people have no choices.

Thus, in effect, all we are really saying is that "X happened because that's what people wanted; and we know that X is what they wanted because X is what happened.

if we want to understand why people do what they do, we must understand the incentives that they face, and hence their preference for one outcome versus another. When someone does something that seems strange or puzzling to us, rather than writing them off as crazy or irrational, we should instead seek to analyze their situation in hopes of finding a rational incentive.

Create your own happiness.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

But as Mark Twain once observed, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is as the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. So do strive for that right word!

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.