Quotes About Choice

Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible or if you aren't.

Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?

What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice.

La mera negativa era demasiado aleatoria, porque a veces la nada puede ser la respuesta acertada, y yo jamás habría dejado mi suerte en manos del azar.

If there is ever a choice between money and adventure, choose adventure.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

There are two kinds of people those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It

what am I to do here?

It was then that it dawned on me: I must take the responsibility, it is up to me how my fate turns out. I had been confronted with a problem to which I had to find the answer. And who posed the problem? Nobody ever answered me that. I knew that I had to find the answer out of my deepest self, that I was alone before God, and that God alone asked me these terrible things. From

Should we will error? You should not, but you do will that error which you take for the best truth, as men have always done.

I try to avoid confrontations with white trash, but sometimes they don't give you no selection.

I'll be on my way soon," he promised. "Let me pay for this first." He put the "S" on the counter. He'd chosen milk chocolate. She preferred dark.

Do you think I don't worry about you?" "That's not—" "Not the same? Because you are a man and I am a woman?" "No. Because it's one thing for me to make the choice to put my own life in danger and something else entirely when my actions endanger someone else." She touched her fingers to his lips. "I knew what I was letting myself in for when I married you, Devlin." He smiled against her hand. "I'm not sure I did.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.