Quotes About Choice

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travled by, And that has made all the difference. As I recalled my own experience and development, I was impressed by the series of lucky accidents that determined the road I traveled. > From Lives of the Laureates pg.67

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth, including illegal drugs, than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

Our choice, always, is to love and understand.

And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?

I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

I think we love who we love and there's not a damn thing that can be done about it.