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Option Quotes (page 4)

Scout, Im telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord youre gettin more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them. Harper Lee
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste. Thomas Sowell
Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison? Ursula K. Le Guin
My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. - Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. Christopher Hitchens
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis. Milton Friedman
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late. Paulo Coelho
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone. Joan Didion
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city Haruki Murakami
Jose Saramago quote: "Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would..."
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. Jose Saramago
Haruki Murakami quote: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Haruki Murakami
John Grisham quote: "She was pondering the option of law school, the great American..."
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. John Grisham
Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it."How differently I might behave," Tom said, "if immortality were an option. Stephen Fry
Lance Armstrong quote: "Giving up was never an option"
Giving up was never an option Lance Armstrong

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