Choice Quotes

“The last freedom is the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Reason is the technique of choice.”

“Magic is a two-edged sword; it is a tool, and it is used for good or for evil. It is the wielder who determines its nature.”

“For it is a choice not to be chosen.”

“The choice is the privileged category of human existence.”

“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.”

“In life, you can do everything, but you can't be everything.”

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

“Our covenants with God are not forced, but voluntary.”

“Basically, then, there are only two kinds of solutions to the population problem. One is a 'birth rate solution,' in which we find ways to lower the birth rate. The other is a 'death rate solution,' in which ways to raise the death rate–war, famine, pestilence–find us.”

“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”

“A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“One must choose: either to rest, or to be free.”

“So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.”

“In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.”

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be adventurous.”

“DRM is about taking choice away from the consumer.”

“It is only in our decisions that we are important.”

“I believe that a woman's right to choose is a fundamental constitutional right. That's a decision that a woman should make with her doctor and her family.”