Quotes About Choice

I believe what I choose. I am not as simple as I seem. Now go!

between Scylla and Charybdis

Warren had to decide whether to fight for his choice, and once he did, find a way to preserve his relationship while getting the desired result.

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you're not making a sacrifice, you're well on your way to freedom.

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, "Keep trying, it's an acquired taste.

There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

I had been much more in love with my wife than she with me, that was all. Somehow, you were supposed to be ashamed of this, as though love were a perpetual jostling for the roles of pursuer and pursued. As if it didn't take more courage to admit that someone held your hopes of happiness in their hands. As if it were a choice.

genetic workup showed I had a BRCA1 mutation, I chose to undergo chemo and have my breasts removed. (That was an aggressive course of action, and I had no regrets. My

No matter how much I pushed, she refused to have the genetic screening that could save her life. I

Andrew, sounding impatient, said, "Will ye do it, lassie?" Blinking, Lina realized that she was still staring at Ian. He smiled, and so compelling was his smile that her own lips twitched in response. "It is up to you, lass," Ian said quietly. "I'd like it fine if you would." Warmth spread through her at those simple words.

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Preference, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

Are you a god now, Risika, deciding who is to live and who is to die?

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

Enemies are like furniture, aren't they? Better chosen for oneself than inherited.

Who says there even is a real Shenkt? People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth … is a hard sell.

Maybe you should try sticking to one side or the other.' 'Why ever would anyone do that?' Cosca raised his flask, took a sip and smacked his lips in satisfaction. 'It's a war. There is no right side.