Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want.
I choose to be with him for however many days or minutes we are granted, and to count myself blessed to have them.
To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today.
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture.
I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
. . . what good would it do to shutter your windows, never dream of rainbows or find hope in promises? Why choose to walk away rather than hold your ground and fight for love?
Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.
We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.
Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.
I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang) Oh, I can be charming. I just choose not to. People start to think you like them, then when you stab them in the back, they take it so personally. Really pisses me off. (Thorn)
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.