Quotes About Choice

What I mean is, I wanted to live my life but I didn't want to do what I had to do

determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.

Not Anyone Who Says Not anyone who says, "I'm going to be careful and smart in matters of love," who says, "I'm going to choose slowly," but only those lovers who didn't choose at all but were, as it were, chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable— only those know what I'm talking about in this talking about love.

the past, the future, the doorway that belongs to you and me.

Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Leonardo da Vinci: And now my friends I know the secret. Jack: You do? Leonardo da Vinci: Yes, the secret to happiness is available to all of us, every hour of every day. Young, old, rich, poor — everyone can choose to find happiness in this way. Annie: How? What's the secret? Leonardo da Vinci: Curiosity

Which ones, in short, make the difference in the consumer's mouth and mind? "And you can't ask the consumer," says Langstaff. "You ask the consumer, 'Why does it taste better?' They say, 'Because I like it better.'" The consumer's flavor lexicon is tiny: yum and yuck.

I've had kids object to their dad's wishes (to donate), says Ronn Wade, director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I tell them, 'Do what's best for you. You're the one who has to live with it.

She replies that lavender was chosen because it's a soothing color.

Because people like me want to have their hamburgers. Only once or twice a year, I want to say. But I know that's a lame defense. It's not the quantity that matters, it's the statement you make or don't make. When you tell people you don't eat beef — or would never use a glue trap — you make the alternative a little less comfortable for them. You keep it from being a thing they give no thought to.

As we wait for the bill, I ask Shanahan the question he gets asked at every cocktail party he's been to in the past twenty years: Are your chances of surviving a crash better near the front of the plane or the back? "That depends," he says patiently. "on what kind of crash it's going to be." I rephrase the question. Given his choice of anywhere on the plane, where does he prefer to sit? "First class.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to grasp them and follow them up, then they are gone, and gone for ever. At least we must try.

It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.

The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.

My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

If you're in doubt choosing between two actions, remember this is an example of free will, and if you later regret your choice, it may nevertheless steer you in the right direction.

To know what is right and choose to ignore it is the act of a coward.

La vie n'a aucun sens pourtant personne ne veut mourrir

Les faibles ne peuvent pas choisir leur façon de mourir

Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

I'm just curious, why did you choose to dye your hair blue?" as opposed to "Why is your hair blue?