#choosing

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#around #begged #beyond #choosing #could

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#choosing #closer #destructive #everything #get

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#choice #choosing #enjoyable #fun #like

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform. ↗

— Sid Meier

#choosing #developers #finding #games #may

For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#choice #choosing #chose #i #may

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#discernment #emotionally #goes #going #into

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

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