Quotes About Choice

Politics has become so polarised. We're stuck between the Ukip-lite Tories and Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.

Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.

I just wanted to change my life. I wanted to change everything. The first team that called me was Toronto FC. It was a quick choice.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

At each moment, who we are and how we behave is a choice that we individually make. The challenges are real; the opportunities are incredible.

Our best theories of people, presented on their own terms and without reference to underlying particles and forces, leave plenty of room for human choice.

Today is a good day to die. But I've decided to stay alive until tomorrow

As humans, our tendency is to play victim. And unless you're watchful, it will sneak up on you and you'll start blaming outside forces—parents, spouses, bosses, the weather, the government, circumstances, "the Man," whomever—for your problems. In reality, we are not victims. We're agents. We are the creative forces of our lives, and we are free to choose. But we have to be reminded of this all the time.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk.