Quotes About Choice

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

I pick and choose what I want to put on what. Instead of just dropping a single, I like putting projects together.

I don't like to use toilets - ever.

I think it is one of the common themes for many Japanese people to choose where to live: Tokyo or their hometown.

The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives.

Nothing is inevitable; everything is tangential, particular—human.

What would you think of a postmistress who chose not to deliver the mail?" I asked.

I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there.

They were groping for a modern order that allowed citizens to participate in the new economies of scale instead of being subject to them, one that offered more freedom of choice to more members of society. Theirs was a version of modernity based on grassroots cooperation, not zero-sum competition

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

Either you're standing under your halos, eyes up to heaven, or you're munching apples in their faces and flashing your bush. I'm not even sure they know which they prefer. The best you can do is choose when you change your costume.

She is only a young woman who did not want to become a nun. The world is full of them.

life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Priest: If truth is your absolute, you will die. If life is your absolute- Hippolytus: I've chosen my path. I'm fucking doomed.

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.

Sister," said Marcot, "would you like me to murder him now or wait until later?

You can choose your friends but not your friendships.

To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.

What about those yogis who can lie down on a bed of nails, then arise, streaming blood, then stop the flow of blood from each wound individually with the power of their minds? Isn't frailty often a choice?

Perfect happiness is the privilege of deciding when things end. But then you have to find a new happiness.

I'm faced at every moment with two possible lives, and I must choose one without knowing whether I want it, whether it's worth it.