#choice

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." [The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996)] ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#choices #decision #decisiveness #inaction #right-and-wrong

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#choice #evolution #evolved #i #i think

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #before #brainwashing #choice #college

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

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

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

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ↗

— Richard Bach

#live #lives #once #only #our

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#acting

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' 'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.' There was a long silence. 'I claim them all,' said the Savage at last. Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#freedom #happiness #rights #unhappiness #freedom