Choice Quotes
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
...it is not for the illusion of a moment to govern the choice of a lifetime.
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.
This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.
Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.
As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.
... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will
My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
Your ChoicES TodaY DeterMinE Your TomorroW And You Make YouR LifE ThrougH The PoweR OF Choice
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.
I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.
They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.
If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.