Quotes About Choice

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I hate.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach.

Computers are designed to be problem solvers, whereas the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter."8

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The system failed not because it was rational, but because rational choice in the face of massive ignorance—whether attributable to folly or deceit—is meaningless. Capitalism depends not on the freedom to choose but on the free flow of information across a low-entropy carrier. Corrupt the carrier with noise, and capitalism collapses. And the great corrupter of any carrier, the great generator of destructive noise, is power. And in this case the powers assembled were immense.

You don't pick the family your born into. You pick the one you make.

It's important to him that his resorting to violence is viewed as a deliberate choice rather than a loss of control on his part.

You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the one you make.

Being human in our world is synonymous with being included into the framework of society. Humanity entitles one to certain rights and privileges, but also implies voluntary acceptance of laws and rules of conduct. It transcends mere biology. It's a choice and therefore belongs solely to the individual. In essence, if a person feels they are human, then they are.

You would be William, then," she said. He nodded. "Are you here for yourself or for Casshorn?" "For Jack," he said. "I see." She didn't, but that seemed like the right thing to say.

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free." A

How do you explain humanity to someone who has no frame of reference? "It has to do with good and evil. You have to decide for yourself what they are. For me, evil is striving to an end without regard for the means.

I could've picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot.

Can you guarantee that your child will not snap and attack his classmates?" "Absolutely. He is very much like his father. It's important to him that his resorting to violence is viewed as a deliberate choice rather than a loss of control on his part.

People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.

Curran shrugged and pulled me back to him. "You don't pick the family you're born into. You pick the one you make. I already chose my mate and glued her ass to the chair to make sure she knew it." He didn't care. The stupid, stupid idiot.

I chose to not worry about it, I told him. I filed it away into the same place keep things like Earth is a globe & ice floats. I'm aware of it, & when I need it, I'll pull it out & dust it off, ... They are my memories. I decide how to view them...