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Choosing Quotes (page 53)

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres! John Irving
Adrienne Rich quote: "If I cling to circumstances I could feelnot responsible. Only..."
If I cling to circumstances I could feelnot responsible. Only she who saysshe did not choose, is the loser in the end. Adrienne Rich
I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that? Nicholas Sparks
Believing everything she read. In the daily news,(No in-between to choose)She thought that only. One side won, Not that BOTHMight lose. Langston Hughes
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try to live so that our death brings... John Steinbeck
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. Abraham Maslow
Tupac Shakur quote: "I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me."
I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me. Tupac Shakur
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story. Ursula K. Le Guin
The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf! J. R. R. Tolkien
Judith Viorst quote: "If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to..."
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me. Judith Viorst
if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sophocles quote: "Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself..."
Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief? Sophocles
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet. Annie Dillard
I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics, and I’m in favor of the music industry … standing up proud and saying it out loud: We in the Chiclet-manufacturing business are not about social justice, …we’re not about a coherent set of national ideals, we’re not about wisdom. We’re about choosing what WE want to listen to and ignoring everything else…. We’re about giving ourselves a mindless feel-good treat every five minutes. …We’re about persuading ten-year-old children to spend... Jonathan Franzen
J. K. Rowling quote: "There it was again: Choose what to believe. He wanted the..."
There it was again: Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it? J. K. Rowling

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