Choice Quotes

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary." "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does" "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." "Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment—and freely choose one, or the other, or both." "I wish it need not have happened in my time said Frodo So do I said Gandalf and so do all who live to see such times But that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "The sky is falling, the wind is calling, stand for something or die in the morning" "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free" "At any moment, you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it." "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses" "The soul selects her own society then shuts the door " "I am condemned to be free." "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" "Either way, I refuse to change what I am. A lion has to eat. Run with me or run from me." "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought" "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." "People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked" "We have the ability to shape our own destiny" "We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose" "Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard."