Sunday, October 17, 2010 – Choices
Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ Blore’s Razor
A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~ Lord Mansfield
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing. ~ Herman Broch
To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. ~ Denis Waitley
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. ~ Harry S Truman
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. ~ Harry S. Truman
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin. ~ Gore Vidal
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ~ Kahlil Gibran
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering ~ Madame de Stael
Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ~ Ellen Frankfort
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ~ Shoshana Zuboff
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ~ Buddy Hackett
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing. ~ Jean Rostand
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done. ~ Timothy Geithner
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh. ~ Robert Orben
Was there ever in anyone’s lifespan a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ~ Joan Didion
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
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde
I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice. ~ Woody Allen
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ~ Noam Chomsky
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ~ Aldous Huxley
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. ~ William James
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play. ~ Willie Nelson
If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. ~ Frantz Fanon
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he’s responsible for every choice we make. ~ Orson Scott Card
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. ~ Penelope Lively
It is only in our decisions that we are important. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last. ~ Marcel Proust
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. ~ B. F. Skinner
I never make conscious decisions. ~ Anthony Hopkins
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. ~ C. Northcote Parkinson
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. ~ Wilma Mankiller
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ` Arthur Miller
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they’re in August. ~ Ronnie Shakes
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