#choice

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#flowers #garden #gardening #mother #sacrifices

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#choice #decisions #ethical #firmly #freedom

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#always #become #before #choices #crossroads

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money. ↗

— Richard Harris

#career choice #choice #get #good #kids

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american people #change #choice #course #double

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#body #choice #gave #god #got

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bisexual #bisexuality #choice #chosen #fact

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A. ↗

— Jerry Orbach

#here #i #i think #little #more

The difficulty in life is the choice. ↗

— George A. Moore

#difficulty #life

These choices we make, they seem so small-- they're made in a split second and yet they can have a ripple effect for years. ↗

— Heather McElhatton

#life