#choice

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#change #choice #destiny #change

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#convince #ever #feel #feel good #good

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. ↗

— David Antin

#audience #choice #get #i #language

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#find #i #intelligible #interest #liking

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. ↗

— Aristotle

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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#bitter #choice #i #i think #man

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#about #children #choice #emotionally #fight

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#able #being #choices #choose #comes

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. ↗

— John Avlon

#aspect #between #brand #centrist #choice

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#attention #both #career #choices #go