Quotes About Choice

How you live is truly a choice. What you're going to do and who you are going to do it with, those are choices only you can make. That was my "aha" moment.

So this is it. This is the Great Escape. Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more? We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever. But just for a while...just for a while.

Q: Why did the blonde put lipstick on her forehead? A: Because she was trying to make up her mind.

God had made a pretty good stew, then He'd screwed it up by mixing in humans and giving them free will and brains. Brains.

Maybe some of both.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

But is that what life is like for everyone? Can a person truly make a life of their own, or can they only continue the culture into which they are born?

We can be whoever we want to be. We can make a new future now. If we make mistakes, at least those mistakes will be ours.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

Was love worth not having the life you wanted?

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services ' it's actually a 'false choice.'

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

The Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it." (Gen. 4:6–7)

Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

Ako je išta prepušteno našoj odluci, našoj volji i slobodi, to je da možemo odabrati kakva ?e nam biti smrt a ne da ona odabere kakav ?e nam biti kraj. Samo smrt nas može razbuditi i povratiti iz košmara.

How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown?

Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?

Life ends, and that's part of what makes it special. What exists is here, in front of us, what we can see and touch and affect. Our lives are not dress rehearsals in which we plan and are tested in anticipation of the real show to come. This is it, the only performance we're going to get to give, and it is what we make of it.

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.

I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.