Quotes About Choice

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

The buying of a whole bottle does not require that you drink the whole bottle. Mother's Rule of eating everything on your plate does not apply to alcohol.

When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.

I'd prefer to have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Because it's all about fear - fear of being alone, fear of never being asked and, worst of all, the fear of having a choice and making the wrong one.

Einen Augenblick lang fixierte er ihn, als schwanke er zwischen Mord und Kniefall.

Dad would often say "The next generation will follow anyone who will promise personal peace and affluence. If they are asked to make a choice between freedom and security they'll choose security. It will be the new fascism.

You don't choose anything important. It just happens. The only choice you have is if you'll make life's accidents work.

Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-

I feel bad for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.

Which came out of the opened door—the lady or the tiger?

When elephants choose to dance, it is the wise man who gets out of the way.

I spend a lot of time talking about something I believe passionately, which is that life is what you choose to make it, for the most part, and more often than not all you need to do is seize it by the throat and demand more from it.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

But when everything is important, no one thing is truly important and efforts, rewards, and motivation suffer.17 Strategy is choice.

If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.