Quotes About Choice

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

She lets it slip because she does. Don't ask her Why now? Ask her Why not every moment up to now?

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

Divorce rates are soaring because many of us end up with the wrong person. It's always better to date a person for some time and then take the call on marriage.

My dad played for... the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that's why I play basketball instead of soccer.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.

I played one year of competitive basketball, actually. I don't remember what grade I was in, maybe middle school or something. I was the point guard - I was the smallest one always. I did my best; I thought I did pretty good. I was always a little bit better at soccer, so I had to make the decision.

I could have played soccer if I wanted.

I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

It's become this sort of strange competition about who's in the coolest place, who's in the coolest street. Suddenly we're having to engage with all those social pressures. It's helpful, I find, as a mother and a teacher, to say you've always got a choice.

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Of course, deciding whether or not to have children is a personal decision, but I would encourage couples to stay open to the idea that having a child or adopting provides both personal and societal benefits.

Too often, our societal norms still set up a false choice between parenting and professionalism.

All democratic societies eventually decide what is in favor of them.

We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.