Quotes About Choice

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

It's such a luxury as an actor to think of your career as something you're choosing for yourself, because so much of the time as an actor you're just hoping that exciting projects come your way.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.

There's no question that increased formal credentials can give you an advantage. The question is, is it the best advantage you can buy with the amount of money and time you're going to spend?

I'm sick of Soup Of The Day, man. It's time we make a decision. I need to know what Soup From Now On is.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'- and tore it up.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Âdem, yaln?zca bir insand?. Bu her ÅŸeyi aç?kl?yor. Elmay?, yemek için deÄŸil, yasak olduÄŸu için istemiÅŸti. As?l hata, y?lan? yasaklamam?? olmakt?. Çünkü o zaman onu yemek isteyecekti.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.

If there is no smoking in heaven, I'm not interested

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug (Mark Twain)

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?

It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.