Quotes About Choice

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.

There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

I do believe in God. I was raised Catholic. For me, personally, I was always very thoughtful about projects that I chose for myself.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.