#choices

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 think you should listen to your heart. It is there the True One speaks to us most. ↗

— Derek Donais

#heart #sci-fi #sci-fi

What you must remember is that the magic itself is neither good nor bad, no more so than this ship might be used for right or wrong. It might be used by a fisherman to feed a village, for example. Or, the same vessel might be sailed by pirates to murder and pillage...the lumber, rope, nails, cotton, and everything that goes into it-is created by the True One. Humans decide how it is to be put together and how it is used. ↗

— Derek Donais

#right-and-wrong #sci-fi #sci-fi

Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.” If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed,” I pointed out. Yeah, but who lives like that? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#expect #hope #lock-and-key #negative #positive

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going. ↗

— Tori Amos

#going #had #life #nights #question

My choices were never wrong. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#never #were #wrong

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#being #choices #conversation #danger #engaging

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. ↗

— Tim Allen

#children #choice #choices #had #job

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. ↗

— Bea Arthur

#choices #compassionate #day #encouraging #every