Quotes About Choice

There are two sides to every coin, just as there are two sides to every situation in life. Therefore, you have the option of choosing to see the negative or choosing to see the positive.

What you decide to do in every moment determines what will happen the rest of your life.

what they want for dinner or spot another person in the

Humanity is, of course, morally free to make and remake itself infinitely, but we do not do so.

Henry's novel The Portrait of a Lady was written in thrall to Darwin's idea of female choice as a force in evolution.

When I go into the local superstore, I never see people driven to misery by the impossibility of choice. I see people choosing.

The more prosperous and free that people become, the more their birth rate settles at around two children per woman with no coercion necessary.

For instance, given the choice between a safe, comfortable and long life for the individual or a risky, tiring and dangerous attempt to breed, virtually all animals (and indeed plants) choose the latter.

Either our actions are determined, in which case we are not responsible for them, or they are random, in which case we are not responsible for them.

I just don't understand why being vegetarian makes you any better than anyone else. What's with the big statements? It's just a choice, in a free society. I think so long as you know where your food's coming from, and you're happy with that, then you should be able to live your life without being judged.

God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?

I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.

To distinguish between the curved and the straight. —Horace (ca. 30 B.C.)

Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals.

She smiled. How...cute. She chose the word rather like a candy, which she bit.

In the end, it is not what you choose to do that changes your destiny. It is what you choose to love.

How can we choose to continue Playing this deadly And impersonal game of loss?

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

I guess life is full of maybes.

Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell.

There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them, Stevie said. Motive. Okay, Nate said. My motive is that I prefer dragons. To what? To the absence of dragons.

What do you do when the devil turns up in your living room and offers you everything you want?

This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.