Quotes About Choice

When the poor at the BOP are treated as consumers, they can reap the benefits of respect, choice, and self-esteem and have an opportunity to climb out of the poverty trap.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms. Even Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

When you're alone, it's easier, she said a little wistfully. You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

The heart wants what the heart wants, she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. You'd think the heart would know better.

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

He's probably one of those "love the one you're with" guys -- meaning he automatically goes after whatever woman happens to be around when he's feeling horny. Just another reason why I'll never get married, I say, getting out of the car. "Oh, Carrie." He sighs. "I feel sorry for you, then. I worry that you'll never find true love.

It's not what I can afford, it's what I want to afford.

there are a lot of women writers who never get married and don't have kids. I am married, but I didn't marry until I was 43. I knew when I was young that if I had to make a choice between being married and being a writer, I would have chosen to be a writer. I think it's a career where you have to put the career first. I don't have kids but - and luckily everyone isn't like this — I think if you have that passion, in a way, your career is your child.

When Yancy arrived, Sonny Summers was at a two-top morosely scanning the menu. "What looks good?" Yancy joked. "The door.

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. LATIN PROVERB

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, "I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you

I don't believe in villains or heroes--only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of hue, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

We sometimes think of life as a conflict between the head and the heart, but in such a situation there is no unity of the human being, but only truces, compromises, and temporary victories of parties with divergent interests. The virtuous soul, on the contrary, blends all its parts in the act of choice.

There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

We may have doubts, but we control the present. We always have the choice to move forward with hope and confidence.