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H. P. Blavatsky

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered

Joseph Epstein

All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our pa

Muriel Rukeyser

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

W. H. Auden

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

George Will

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

Joan B. Campbell

Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control

Unknown

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

Abbe' D'Allanival

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Ellen Frankfort

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.

Neil Peart

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice

Phylicia Rashad

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice.

Albert Einstein

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.

Anon.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Jean Nidetch

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Samuel Johnson

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Euripides

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Alcayde of Molina._

Follow thou thy choice.

Charles Rosin

Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.

Barbara Bloom

You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.

Doug Larson

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Unknown

The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

Anna Lappe

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

George John Whyte-Melville

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

Spiro T. Agnew

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Spider-Man

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Billy Joel

As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay

Peggy Noonan

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Ted Morgan

The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canaps of knowledge and never had their fill.

Arbie M. Dale

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Barbara DeAngelis

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 1132.

Of men The happiest he, who far from public rage, Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life.

Dag Hammarskjld

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

I Ching

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones.

Sigmund Freud

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere with

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence....I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witne

William Sherman Pene du Bois

The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature.

Scott Adams

I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.

Erich Fromm

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man,

William Jennings Bryan

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

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.

Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Dee Wallace Stone

We create our lives a thought at a time. And sometimes, it comes down to changing a thought such as 'Why did this happen to me' into 'There is a divine plan and there is a reason for this, and my choice is to create the most positive reaction I can.'

I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

We have to believe in free will. We???ve got no choice.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, What choice do I have?

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Insert inevitable trivial witticism of your choice.

Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this -- I either choose the truth or I am deceit.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

I chose and my word was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken ?the choosing was not. Just keep moving on...

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

"Bagman" is not a legitimate career choice - Bart Simpson's lines

"Freedom of movement and choice produced the human spirit."

"I sense (insert emotion of choice here)" -- Counsellor Troi

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme choice"- RUSH Circumstances

"Tasters Choice: The Final Chapter!" -- Crow T. Robot

"`Bagman' is not a legitimate career choice." - Bart's Board

"SPOTTED OWL" - Meal of choice of Unemployed Lumber Workers

"'Bagman' is not a legitimate career choice." --Bart Simpson.

"Worship at the railroad of your choice." -Crow T. Robot/Tom Servo

"Worship the truck farmer at the church of your choice!"

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

"You try my patience, MAKE YOUR CHOICE!" - Phantom of the Opera