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Choosing Quotes (page 11)

And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and adorned with ribbons and stars, silk stockinged, yellow gloved and with polished boots; men who insisted on the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, of bigotry, ignorance, enslavement, the death penalty and war, and who, talking in polished undertones, glorified the sword and the executioners' block. For our part, if we had to choose between the... Victor Hugo
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose..."
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? Laurell K. Hamilton
John Keats quote: "I must choose between despair and EnergyI choose the latter."
I must choose between despair and EnergyI choose the latter. John Keats
We are told we must choose? the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003] Susan Sontag
Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. Charles de Lint
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith. Charles R. Swindoll
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. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all. Philip Pullman
Margaret Atwood quote: "They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to..."
They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice. Margaret Atwood
Henri Nouwen quote: "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and..."
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Henri Nouwen
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. J. K. Rowling
Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. [You] will encounter people who pick which commandments they will keep and ignore others that they choose to break. I call this the cafeteria approach to obedience. This practice of picking and choosing will not work. It will lead to misery. To prepare to meet God, one keeps all of His commandments. It takes faith to obey them, and keeping His commandments will strengthen that... Russell M. Nelson
B. F. Skinner quote: "We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us."
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us. B. F. Skinner
Leighton Meester quote: "You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your..."
You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama. Leighton Meester
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. Peter McWilliams
Jerry Garcia quote: "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing..."
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. Jerry Garcia

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