Quotes About Choice

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.

Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.

When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

Your mind is either your most powerful ally or your worst enemy. The choice is yours.

Tenía la idea de que, si ejercías un control mental y te decías muy seria: «No tendré hijos», seguramente no vendrían.

Always, there must be free will. It is not for us to impose our beliefs on others or to endeavor to persuade one to the practices of our faith. We do not seek those who need our help. Rather, they must seek us and request our assistance. —Esmée Roussel, the Dress Witch" Davis, Barbara. The Keeper of Happy Endings

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive

meant to be." Nancy took one

The future is not set; there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

I don't want you anymore. I don't want to be second choice, second best, second whatever. I don't want to be the one who trails after you like some stupid lost puppy dog. I don't want to be the one you got stuck with after the one you loved got away.

But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.

Real love is intentional, an act of the will.

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer.

In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.

I hope every woman in this country, whether they agree with Roe or they disagree with Roe, whether they themselves would make one decision or another, will come together and say: Pro-choice means that the Government respects the individual, and isn't that really what our country is all about?

The events we suffer through act like a polishing cloth or a chisel. It's your choice of which one, but it's one or the other.

If you want to sing, sing. If you want to ride, ride. If you want to cook, cook. That's your path. Where it leads you is a mystery, but you follow that path. You can't force it. Life doesn't like being coerced.

For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.