Quotes About Choice

The necessity of perpetuating the species, forms the combining principle between males and females; a principle independent of choice or design, and alike incident to animals and to plants, which are all naturally impelled to propagate their respective kinds.

Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.

We must as a second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

A man is the origin of his action.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.

you did it, not because you're being punished. He can tell the difference too!

The choice is not, Reich argues, between a governed and an ungoverned market, but between a market governed by laws favoring monopolistic companies and one governed by those favoring small business.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

To be here or somewhere else, to live or not to live, to look out through a broken window or not to look.

To kill and caress. Or simply kill, so you're not always bothered by something or somebody. So it is to be killed or to kill.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.