Quotes About Choice

It's a conscious decision, a full-time job, to be happy.

I've always made the choice to do everything to my fullest potential.

Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental.

Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?'

Choosing when and whether to have a baby is a fundamental right for all women, no matter where they live.

I leave abortion to the woman. I just fundamentally end there. I absolutely support a woman's right to choose.

I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.

La vida es un continuo optar. Algunas veces acertamos, otras veces nos equivocamos. Yo creo que sea cual sea la decisión, errada o acertada, debe salir del corazón, del propio convencimiento y no como consecuencia del miedo

Oh, child,' the Father exclaimed, 'whether it's St Martha or that Mary that made the bitter choice, not one of them ever looked more virtuous than you. Why aren't ye born to be a good man's help-meet?

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When

The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not!

Briefly stated, the main argument of this chapter is that protest is also not a matter of free choice; it is not freely available to all groups at all times, and much of the time it is not available to lower-class groups at all.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else

Cose assai sorprendenti possono accadere a chi, avendo nella mente un pensiero sgradevole e scoraggiante, abbia il buonsenso di accorgersene e scacciarlo via in tempo sostituendolo con un altro pensiero piacevole e ottimista. Due cose non possono occupare contemporaneamente lo stesso posto. Là dove coltivi la rosa, ragazzo mio, Non può crescere il cardo.