Quotes About Choice

You either live under a rock or you walk in the sunshine. That's pretty much how it goes.

I've turned down all sorts of good things accidentally, too. I read the script for 'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind' and thought, 'This makes no sense.' Then I went to the cinema to see it. Well, what an idiot.

There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.

Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.

that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen leise aus lautem Kreis, wenn ich erst die bleichen Sterne über den Eichen blühen weiß. Wege will ich erkiesen, die selten wer betritt in blassen Abendwiesen? und keinen Traum, als diesen: Du gehst mit.

I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Would you like to resurrect God to take responsibility?" He shook his head. "No, Brother, we have to make such decisions ourselves.

Therefore he had either to affirm the transcendent ideals of democracy and his own dignity by aiding those who despised him, or accept his situation as hopelessly devoid of meaning; a choice tantamount to rejecting his own humanity.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

Whatever limits us,we call Fate

Reality is a sliding door.

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.

What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.