Quotes About Choice

It is a reality of medicine that choosing to not do something—to not order a test, to not give an antibiotic, to not take a patient to the operating room—is far harder than choosing to do it.

She said she would not go ahead with surgery.

Whatever the limits and travails we face, we want to retain the autonomy—the freedom—to be the authors of our lives. This is the very marrow of being human.

Other shoes aren't as comfortable

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

It has been said that Black men cannot be denied their personal choice of the woman who meets their need to dominate. In that case, Black women also cannot be denied our personal choices, and those choices are becoming increasingly self-assertive and female oriented.

I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.

this action was a kind of shift from safety towards self-preservation. It was a choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

I think now what was most important was not what I chose to do so much as that I was conscious of being able to choose, and having chosen, was empowered from having made a decision, done a strike for myself, moved.

The important thing to realize is the males in most species will breed with any female who stays still long enough. It's the females who are selective. What they desire has a huge effect. If all the female walruses got together one day to decide they wanted polka dots, within a few generations the males would have polka dots. The female's wish made physical on the male's body.

My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. LAURA.

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

I like the bad one better,' I said. 'She had flying monkeys, and the good one was tacky and seemed kind of dumb.

Now he was the dish of wrapped peppermints next to the cash register that I didn't want because they were free. Because

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the bake lines on their cars. 253-254.

Bulls**t,' I say. 'You chose to relapse. You didn't have to.' I hate it when alcoholics relapse and then act like somebody cut the brake lines on their cars.

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.

I either write the books or sell the jewels , and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.