Quotes About Choice

the administrator was known to be an extreme antichoice activist who insisted that a ball of cells the size of a garbanzo bean should supersede the will of a living, breathing woman.

Turns out a woman choosing adoption, even a woman behind bars, gets a lot more support than a woman who needs an abortion or who plans on keeping her baby.

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

You don't believe a woman should be allowed to make private decisions about her own health.

You know what else is my constitutional right? To get an abortion. You don't get to choose what rights belong to me.

I remember she told me she could either spend her time working on a scrapbook about her life, or actually living her life. And she chose to live her life.

He said no one has a right to overrule a woman's choice. He also said it's unconscionable that this process took as long as it did, and it's shameful that every court in the system touched this case and still didn't apply the law. Not only that, the judge who originally granted it was censured.

there are some things you don't have a choice about, but there's plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive.

Being paralyzed is a condition. Being angry is a choice

I understood why it might seem to Dawn as if I were yielding my freedom to provide a home for John. But I wasn't, not really. I was choosing, freely, to commit my time, my work, my attention, my life-energy to the boy. In choosing, I was exercising my freedom.

I can see it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

One of them is married and another is engaged and the third cannot make up her mind.

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly, and especially in the US, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote". Rather than correcting the market failures, the political system was reinforcing them.

Easier by far, thought Ambassador Spock, to get forgiveness than permission. Humans might have invented that saying, but its applications were universal. The

So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.

If she were their mother she'd teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people into thinking they must stay where the things are. Leave it all, she'd teach them, even your hopes, and all the dreams of safe, calm places. Go with what is most terrifying, the dizzying empty night and the lonely stars until night slows and you see the whole design. Always choose love over safety if you can tell the difference...

They sounded frantic; he imagined them driven into the night by a force stronger than hunger or love, flying blind, scared stiff but having no choice in the matter.

Are you here to kill me quickly with violence? Or slowly with responsibility?

Freedom is the best pizza you could have.

The way truth or a topic is presented affects how we respond to it. Consider two milk containers as an illustration. One reads 20% cholesterol, while another says 80% cholesterol free. We will choose the second alternative as a result of the framing effect..."

This could be heaven or this could be hell'?" "A lot will depend on the mattress.

And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.

I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.

Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.