Quotes About Choice

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one.

My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me.

My choice is what I choose to do, and if I'm causing no harm, it shouldnt bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, and if you're causing no harm, it shouldn't bother me.

the more thoroughly I liberate myself from prevailing cultural assumptions—around education, wealth, ambition, and success, to name but a few—the more choice I actually have. The more freedom I have.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

The decision to leave his family behind was either an act of monumental self-sacrifice, or one of selfish self-preservation, or both. He told himself he had no choice, which is what we all tell ourselves when forced to make a terrible choice.

He preferred women to men, and horses to both.

John Masterman once wrote: "Sometimes in life27 you feel that there is something which you must do, and in which you must trust your own judgment and not that of any other person. Some call it conscience and some plain obstinacy. Well, you can take your choice.

There was a village saying, much repeated: "God said behave, but He didn't say how.

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.

mieux vaut vivre libre dans un monde ravagé qu'être un esclave dans une utopie pacifiée.

Better to live free in a ravaged world than to be a slave in a peaceful utopia.

Choisir la mort, c'est insulter l'espoir ; or, même si on nage dans le désespoir, l'espoir demeure toujours.

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?

I was fine with the choice.

I didn't want to influence his choice too much, since my support for any one candidate could easily be misrepresented as opposition to another.

which seemed the right decision given what we knew then.

do not persuade me to drop this option from the playbook altogether,

Demonstrating her self-confidence, Janet had pushed the administration to nominate Stan, a choice that I strongly supported. Not every new chair would be comfortable with such a strong number two. The

that letting Lehman go was a choice rather than an unavoidable outcome.

Nevertheless, I do not want the notion that Lehman's failure could have been avoided, and that its failure was consequently a policy choice, to become the received wisdom, for the simple reason that it is not true.

It turned out, however, to have been the right appointment.

I worried that Jorgenson would be upset if I chose MIT over Harvard

The creation story itself is designed to demonstrate how the first man, Adam, used his innate power of choice wrongly—and we are all Adam's descendants.