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Choosing Quotes (page 46)

The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics. Charles de Lint
Philip Pullman quote: "It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The..."
It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither. Philip Pullman
Anthony Burgess quote: "the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot..."
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose,..."
I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased. Lois McMaster Bujold
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice Mortimer Adler
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination. Eugene Ionesco
Jacqueline Susann quote: "Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't..."
Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity. Jacqueline Susann
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie. Herman Hesse
Christopher Reeve quote: "Once we choose hope, everything is possible."
Once we choose hope, everything is possible. Christopher Reeve
Leonard Cohen quote: "I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When..."
I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery. Leonard Cohen
James Allen quote: "A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses."
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. James Allen
Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No. We don't dream about it because we don't think about it; we don't think about it because we don't care about it. We are much more interested in law and order, so that American streets may be made safe while we transform those of (Iraq) into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. 'Every time I look at the flag, my eyes fill with tears.' Mine too. Dalton Trumbo
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack. But then, it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that, in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not. Haruki Murakami
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. Stephen Covey
The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. Richard Dawkins

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